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Your treatment of Bert Lance [Sept. 19] reminds me of old-style Western justice: "Hurry up with the trial so we can get on with the hanging...
...probably just as well that we got Bert Lance out of Washington before he had a chance to apply any of his innovative ideas. Perish the thought that a shaker and mover should work for the Government; he might have done some good...
...Bert Lance ever needs another loan, he might consider asking William Safire. The Nixon-Agnew speechwriter-turned-columnist surely has the money, having made about $1 million from his bestselling Washington novel, Full Disclosure (TIME, July 4). He also has a personal admiration for Lance. "A likable man," says Safire, "and one of the very few in the Carter Administration to return my phone calls...
...Budget Director, Safire was one of Lance's most relentless journalistic tormentors. The columnist began writing about Lance's alleged financial improprieties in July, and a week before Lance bowed out Safire even conjured up an eloquent, 946-word television address in which the President announced that Bert and LaBelle were going home. Carter used...
...first one I've made a nickel from," he says. "I'm flabbergasted by its well-deserved success." Success is busting out all over for Safire. For the first time since the Carter Administration took office, Safire reported last week, other White House officials besides Bert Lance have begun returning his phone calls...