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...When Bert Lance made a long-scheduled appearance at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio last week, it was inevitable that someone would ask him the question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island...
...placed Atlanta businessman, who is close to both Lance and Carter, told friends that Lance has offered to resign twice, but that Carter talked him out of it both times. Another Georgian quoted Presidential Aide Stu Eizenstat as saying a couple of weeks ago, "It's quite obvious Bert won't survive all this...
...Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black...
...Reston reported that some of Lance's Georgia colleagues were "privately and sadly...conceding that he is embarrassing the President and will probably have to go." In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal concluded that the major issue is not the questions the Lance affair raises about Banker Bert but the questions it raises about Jimmy Carter. Said the paper of the President: "The central question is not so much 'Is he honest?' as 'Does he know what he's doing...
Certainly, Carter's handling of the Lance affair is of far greater importance to the nation than Lance's future. When Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann concluded his inquiry into Lance's conduct as a Georgia banker with the verdict that Bert had done nothing that warranted prosecution, Carter pounced on the report as if it were a clean bill of health. It was not, yet the President made a point of whipping down from Camp David aboard a helicopter and proclaiming before a nationwide TV audience, "Bert, I'm proud...