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...December raised prices 6% on the flat-rolled metal that goes into autos and appliances, Carter discreetly asked through intermediaries if executives would be willing to reduce the raise. Steelmen refused but got the point for the future. In mid-January, U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar B. Speer visited Bert Lance, who was about to become director of the Office of Management and Budget, to tell him that a raise on tin plate was coming. Lance asked him to return to Washington to talk about it, and a week after the Inauguration, Speer met with Lance, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal...
...centers among the Cabinet and Cabinet-level officeholders are hard to pick. Introducing his Cabinet at the East Room ceremony, Carter praised Schlesinger lavishly, saying that they had formed "an almost instant personal friendship." The treatment left Schlesinger glowing. But Attorney General Bell and Director of Management and Budget Bert Lance are old Georgia comrades of Carter's. The President has also shown a particularly high regard in the past for Vance, Brown, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze...
...former Algerian ambassador to the U.S. Her first effort at entertaining for the Carter circle was a dinner for Andrew Young, Carter's U.N. ambassador. Yolande owns three houses in Georgetown: the 18-room digs she occupies with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget; and a summer house with a pool. She laughs at Washington's formality ("Do you believe those invitations that come six weeks ahead? You might have swine flu by the time the day rolls around!") and likes to entertain...
...eleven-room house they rent from Yolande Fox is considerably smaller than their 40-room mansion in Atlanta, where they entertain elegantly in a dining room that can seat 50 people. Their Washington phone has a listed number-a rarity in high Government circles-and is often answered by Bert himself...
...Lances plan to hold their entertaining to dinners for six or eight. "I'll do the cooking," says LaBelle, and only wine and soft drinks will be served. Says Bert: "If all they're coming for is a drink, there are plenty of bars out there." Their guests will not be drawn from any list. Explains LaBelle: "I hope we're beyond that. That's silly. If someone invites us out, I hope it's because they like...