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...Carter has had little cause for complaint about press coverage. His fresh style, his often puzzling but engaging personality, his numerous initiatives-from energy to the Panama Canal treaty-have been massively and on the whole favorably reported. The first major negative story about the Carter Administration has been Bert Lance. At first not only members of the White House but other Americans felt that the press might be too hard on the embattled director of the Office of Management and Budget. But by now, congressional and Government investigators, following the reporters, are demonstrating the seriousness of the case. TIME...
...cover story was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, with accompanying pieces by Associate Editors James Atwater and Frank Merrick. For Magnuson, who wrote much of our Watergate coverage, it was not a welcome task. "Any comparison between Bert Lance's troubles and the enormity of Watergate is ridiculous," he says. "But I'm getting a little tired of writing about guys in trouble...
Jimmy is proud of Bert [Aug. 29], and I am disappointed in Jimmy. I believed he meant all that stuff about ethics and morality. Perhaps the rest of the country needs to be educated in the Georgia variety of those virtues...
...know why President Carter chose Bert Lance as budget director and has such confidence in him. Anybody who can juggle his personal finances the way Mr. Lance has had to do obviously was ready for bigger things. The guy is a magician-just the quality we need to balance the federal budget...
Attacks by the press against Bert Lance weaken America by disheartening other good men from accepting the challenge when called to public service...