Word: brauer
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...always reminded that a president is president until January 20," says the K-School's Carl M. Brauer, who last year published a book studying presidential transitions since Dwight D. Eisenhower took over from Harry Truman in 1952. "Authority does not shift until then, but power shifts at the election or before the election in this case. Reagan has handed over some of his major appointments. Bush has called the shots in the cabinet...
Bush's transition will also be different, according to Brauer, because as the only sitting vice president to be promoted since Martin Van Buren in 1836, he must build his own image after being in the shadow of a popular president for eight years...
Some good folks have been stirring on this problem under the guidance of Harvard's Carl Brauer, a student of presidential transitions. He tapped 150 people from the past nine Administrations, Roosevelt to Reagan, to recommend how Presidents should go about getting the right people to serve and stay. Lyndon Johnson's senior appointees hung around only 2.8 years on the average. The Reagan average is down to two years. One-third of all the senior appointees of the past 20 years served a mere 1.5 years or less. Even a casual observer must ask just what they...
Among the recommendations of Brauer's group is to allocate $2 million to $3 million by this summer for the transition. Some of the money would go to the major party candidates right after they are nominated, even though one will lose. Such a plan, the instigators believe, would appeal to the contenders as a welcome way to armor themselves against the political pressures that they know will explode with victory. How the winner in November goes about gathering the people who will run this country will tell us more about his prospects for success than all his speeches, promises...
Then, unexpectedly, came an event that Margie Brauer calls the "turning point in our lives." A Dutch-born businessman who lived in Switzerland read about the couple's difficulties. He had always been grateful to the U.S. for the part its Army played in helping liberate the Netherlands in World War II. Acting through an intermediary in February, the businessman (who insists on anonymity) gave the Brauers 100,000 Swiss francs -- about $60,000. Ernie, an Army veteran who fought in Holland during the war, said simply, "Thank God." Margie was more expansive. "I had accepted the fact that things...