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...overflow crowd packed Room 3302 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week, drawn by the promise of a heated confrontation between Budget Director Bert Lance and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Lance had been called to answer accusations that he had acted improperly while president of the National Bank of Georgia, his job before joining the Carter Administration. The major charge was that the Georgia bank had wrongly deposited $200,000 of its funds at Chicago's First National Bank in exchange for a personal loan to Lance of $3.4 million (TIME...
...Sharpening Battle Over Bert Lance...
...banker, he made himself a millionaire, and he was one of the first men whom Carter appointed to a Cabinet-level position. Now the director of the Office of Management and Budget-who cruised around Washington during Inaugural week in a black Cadillac bearing special license plates with BERT on the front bumper and LANCE on the back-might be the first man to go. Last week Bert Lance was rapidly becoming an embarrassment to the Administration, a threat to its whole aura of stern moral probity, and the target of an investigation by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency...
...Georgia staffers and members of Congress and their families to a backyard barbecue at the White House. The excuse for the party, explained the First Lady, was "to get children to meet Amy," who sat gleefully with the rest of trie small fry at the magic show. Guests Bert Lance, Tip O'Neill, Mark Hatfield and James Sehlesinger munched hot dogs and hamburgers, enjoying various attractions: a clutch of clowns, an old-fashioned calliope and the Washington Redskins playing volleyball. The high spot of the party came when Jimmy, Wife Rosalynn and Amy deftly do-si-doed with...
...relax his demand for Lance's sake undoubtedly aroused sympathy among Democrats on the committee. Besides, the gregarious Lance seems to have made a favorable impression on a great many Congressmen during his six months in Washington. Said a White House source: "If this had happened in January, Bert probably couldn't have survived. But now he's made a lot of friends in Congress...