Word: blaire
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...Washington, Carter continued his interviewing at Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...
...Fords put up the Carters in Blair House, the Government's official guest quarters. The Georgians were undemanding guests, going their own way from their farmerly rising at 6 a.m. and making only one special request: they asked for dinner one night on 15 minutes' notice. The staff, trained to fulfill the whims of princes and potentates, whisked filet of beef onto a table formally laid for twelve. Half of Washington would have crawled over broken glass to dine with a President-elect, but the Carters simply called in some wide-eyed young staffers to enjoy the meal...
While Rosalynn looked over the nearby public school that nine-year-old Amy may attend,* Carter held court in the red, book-lined library on the second floor of Blair House. He was briefed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary William Simon, HEW Secretary David Mathews, Director of the Office of Management and Budget James Lynn and, lastly, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, the crusty monetary conservative with whom Carter will have to learn to live in the months ahead. The visitors gave Carter good marks for asking "the right questions," but they felt that the one-hour sessions...
Morgan, 50, is married to a Rockefeller (Nelson's younger daughter, Mary), has worked at Esquire and New York and, until last month, was editor of the Village Voice. Morgan says he will retain Editor Blair Clark, 59, to write the paper's editorials. He intends to raise freelance rates, attract more big-name political writers, and try to give The Nation something it has lacked for all but a handful of its 111 years: a profit. "My goal is to run it in the black," says Morgan. "It has always been an independent journal of ideas...
Schiff has dangled the paper before a long procession of prospective buyers. Among them: Eleanor Roosevelt, Thread Heir and Nation Editor Blair Clark, Post Editorial Page Editor James Wechsler, New York Magazine Editor Clay Felker. "It's her way of flirting," says Felker. This year she became serious. Among the possible reasons: the specter of afternoon competition from the News-or from Murdoch, who had been telling associates he might launch his own New York daily if he could not get the Post; Schiff's conclusion that her daughter, Post Assistant Publisher Adele Hall Sweet, would never fill...