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...investigators looking into the firing two weeks ago of Philadelphia's Republican U.S. Attorney, David Marston, Carter last week corrected a misstatement he had made during a nationally televised press conference on Jan. 12. Republican Congressmen saw an opportunity to duplicate last summer's damaging controversy over Bert Lance's financial peccadilloes, and to lay siege again to what was once the President's pride: his credibility...
...would seem from the offer by a Saudi Arabian to help Bert Lance out of his financial difficulties [Jan. 9] that the Arabs are gradually buying out this country. Let them. The greater an economic investment they have in the U.S., the more likely they are to avoid oil price increases or oil embargoes...
...relationship thawed slowly. Carter began seeking out Byrd's advice, and Byrd, his ego satisfied, began giving it more freely. Real trust developed in September when Byrd advised Carter to let go of Bert Lance. Says Byrd: "Carter listened carefully, seemed impressed with what I said, and even asked me to come back later." Now Byrd is telling the President that his approach to Congress last year was too soft-sell. With party discipline weak, advises Byrd, Carter must create his own congressional majorities by force of argument, which he has so far not done. Quips Democratic Representative John Brademas...
...boss and so many other now prominent Washingtonians, Mclntyre met Carter in 1970, when the President was a defeated Georgia politician trying again for state office. Last week Mclntyre, 37, a quiet lawyer turned figure technician, got the job most recently filled by a far more flamboyant Georgian, Bert Lance. Carter named Mclntyre Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
Saudi Arabia's production of mysterious millionaires is almost as impressive as its output of oil-and now one of those little-known Saudis has volunteered to start digging Bert Lance out from under his mountain of debts. Ghaith Pharaon, 37, has offered to buy 60% of the stock in Lance's National Bank of Georgia for $20 a share, or about $4 above market value. Whether other stockholders accept or not, Lance will turn over 60% of his 200,000-odd shares to Pharaon and get a check for about $2.4 million...