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Even for a nation long saturated with theatrics in Washington, the spectacle was fascinating. Easy-going Bert Lance, the country slicker whose financial low jinks as a Georgia banker had deeply imperiled his survival as Jimmy Carter's most intimate and visible Cabinet official, had turned from an amiable Teddy-bear figure into a charging grizzly. Seizing his long-promised day in court, the man widely considered doomed tore into his tormentors, sent a senatorial committee into confusion in nationally televised hearings and gave himself, however temporarily, a fighting chance to remain in office in big, bad Washington...
...officials merit their trusted positions. That turnabout, putting his inquisitors on the defensive and setting them to partisan bickering among themselves, was a remarkable achievement for Lance. He had sufficiently muddied up some of the allegations against him so that the joking question wagging around Washington was "Now, will Bert ask the committee to resign...
...highflying banking practices and thereby strengthen the resignation demands. Ultimately, the decision on Lance's fate still remained with the President. If the unlikely result of the hearings is to exonerate Lance completely, Jimmy Carter could joyously return to his earlier "I'm proud of you Bert" position and break out the grins. In fact, the committee's verdict on Lance is likely to be mixed. So the possibility remains that Lance, claiming to feel personally vindicated, could yet decide on his own to resign. Whether or not Lance stays, jumps, or is pushed by Carter...
President Carter is considering Hale Champion, undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare and former financial vice president at Harvard, and Lawrence E. Lynn Jr., professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, as replacements for Bert Lance, according to a story in yesterday's New York Times. Lance resigned as director of the Office of Management and Budget last Wednesday...
...BERT LANCE's resignation as director of the Office of Management of Budget was an unavoidable resolution of the controversy that has surrounded him since June. The allegations of improprieties in his private banking activities suggest his integrity is less than complete, and Lance's use of a strong counterattack to defend himself at last week's Senate hearings is partially justified by the aggressive nature of the media and certain Congressional critics, but such a defense could never have made him palatable as a high government official...