Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...donation will fund research by a team headed by Dr. Bert Vallee, Cabot Professor of Biological Chemistry, who said research in the field has reached a critical point and seems to indicate that alcoholism may be heavily genetically influenced...
...every Carter analyst comes back, both in admiration and in doubt, to the President's religiosity. It bolsters him for the great waves of criticism that pound now at the White House. But it also seduces him and contributes to many of his falterings. He is a believer?in-Bert Lance, his old friend and economic counselor whose banking improprieties forced him from the Office of Management and Budget; in Billy Carter, the kid brother with a good heart who must mean well; in Leonid Brezhnev, who pledged his hope for peace in the shadowy halls of Vienna's Hofburg...
...would just be 'It's his stupid brother,' but now Billy's image transfers to Jimmy." California Pollster Mervin Field felt that the Billy affair provides "a disturbing reminder" of the President's previous embarrassing friendship for wheeler-dealer Banker and White House Insider Bert Lance. "The Billy thing puts President Carter on the defensive," said Pollster Louis Harris. "He will not really be able to campaign in his favorite way with high moral dudgeon...
...admire the way he lives his own life," the president once said of his brother, who is 13 years his junior. "I have never had any occasion to be embarrassed by Billy. Billy is a good man and I'm proud he's my brother." Jimmy was proud of Bert Lance, too. Chimed in Rosalynn: "Billy is one of the best people I've ever known...
...most glaring case was Saudi Industrialist Ghaith Pharaon's ploy to hook up with the Georgia good-ole-boy network. The Saudi financier bought from President Carter's former Budget Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington...