Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
Moving Jordan. The Eisenhower and Nixon staffs had pyramidal organizations, with one or two men controlling access to the President. Carter's aides describe their setup as a wheel: the President is the hub and his top assistants are the spokes-equally positioned, in theory, to feed the boss with information and advice from many quarters. The reality is somewhat different...
...spoke that is longest and strongest of all is clearly Hamilton Jordan, 32. the breezy, feet-up Georgian who was Carter's executive secretary in his gubernatorial days and is now boss of "political coordination" in the White House. Referring to the longtime Georgia confidant who has helped him out on particularly knotty problems, Carter calls Jordan "My West Wing Charles Kirbo." In fact, Jordan's responsibilities are just about what he chooses to make them. Chuckles a colleague: "Power groups in the Carter White House. Hamilton is the power group...
Fewer Knives. Some critics, observing the Georgians' fierce loyalty to their boss, have suggested that Carter could be creating his own imperial presidency; he is surrounded by a palace guard that, despite its relentless informality, is a palace guard nonetheless. That does not seem likely. Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "There is within the Carter White House less jockeying and fewer glinting knives in the back than is usual in a place where power can be determined by how close you sit to the Oval Office. The Carter staff is more relaxed and more approachable than any other White...
...Giancana, 66, retired Mafia boss, who was shot in the basement of his Chicago home in June 1975. Investigators believe Giancana was slain for refusing to share the take from Caribbean gambling ships, a fringe benefit that he acquired in the early 1960s...