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...Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Largely to appease her, the White House acted last week on a HUD memo urging that an emissary be chosen to end the quarrel, perhaps by bringing about Hunter's "voluntary resignation." The memo named five men as possible mediators, including Bert Lance, but the White House gave the job to Robert Strauss, the President's special trade negotiator...
Five months after he was forced out as U.S. budget chief, his finances in disarray and his future in doubt, Bert Lance is well on the way to new riches from a number of ventures. One of them is serving as the American connection for oil-rich Middle East millionaires in search of investment opportunities...
Pharaon, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur, on a deal for Pharaon to buy 120,000 of Lance's 200,000-odd shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million. That bailed out Bert and enabled him to pay off some of his daunting loans...
...Senate appearances last summer drew millions of TV viewers, but these days Bert Lance is settling for smaller audiences as a commentator for WXIA-TV in Atlanta. "No man in the country has had wider experience in the techniques of investigative reporting," joked Carter Countrymen Jody Powell and Ham Jordan in a good-luck telegram from the White House. Or a better sense of his public. In his first l ½-minute spiel, Lance called for a permanent tax cut "for the working people of America," then later reflected on the chances of his minishow going national. "That would...
...general. He said he authorized the payment to compensate the agency for past services and to settle any future claims for commissions. Bell later landed a $500 million contract with Iran. Mindful of the criticism that the Senate received when it too hastily confirmed former Budget Director Bert Lance, the committee members agreed to conduct an investigation that is expected to take a week. Even so, Miller's ultimate confirmation seems assured...