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Phil Taubman was amazed when Bert Lance, the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, urged reporters to call him at home if they had questions. Phil took up his offer, found that Lance answered his own phone, and was invited to the Lances' home the next day. A few weeks earlier, Hays Gorey got Griffin Bell's number from the Atlanta directory and had a long, friendly telephone chat with the Attorney General-designate...
...billion to $6 billion. Nor is Carter likely to go along with Ford's proposal to cut the $5.6 billion food-stamp program by $900 million. But for the most part, the Carter Administration can live quite comfortably with Ford's unexpectedly generous legacy. Says Bert Lance, incoming director of the Office of Management and Budget: "Basically, the Carter budget will be a Ford budget...
...designate Griffin Bell. The cause of Tarver's outrage was the coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
...membership in two Atlanta clubs-the Capital City Club and the Piedmont Driving Club-that have not admitted blacks or Jews as members. Bell announced that he would quit the clubs only after Carter had made it clear that he hoped Bell would do so. (Budget Director-designate Bert Lance and Charles Kirbo, Carter's closest political adviser, are also members of the Piedmont Club; Houston Businessman Charles W. Duncan Jr., tapped as Deputy Defense Secretary, is a member of Piedmont, as well as two similarly discriminatory clubs in Houston...
During three press conferences last week, Carter added six names, to bring his list of major appointees to eight (the first two being Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State and Bert Lance as director of the Office of Management and Budget). The new selections gave his emerging team a look of intelligence, efficiency and pragmatism...