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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...
Last summer passed painfully for Margie Brauer, 60, and her husband Ernie, 69, one of the thousands of American farm families who have been battling hard times. Mired in debt, the Norlina, N.C., couple declared bankruptcy in April 1986. Then, facing foreclosure on the 228-acre farm that she and Ernie had worked for 40 years, Margie wrote an eloquent letter to a court-appointed trustee, expressing the hope that she and her husband might somehow retain their self-respect as they went through the agonizing process of giving up their home and land. TIME reprinted that letter (NATION, Sept...
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...
...electorate, however, seems far more interested in stability and continuity than in new social programs. "Social justice isn't particularly relevant for most Germans these days," says Hartmut Brauer, a judicial administrator and a Social Democratic politician in Schweinfurt...
...Brauer and her husband Ernie have received some 200 or so communications from as far away as Hawaii and Great Britain. Many have included cash donations ranging in size from $5 to several hundred dollars. There have also been preliminary inquiries by investors interested in purchasing the farm as trustees who would allow the Brauers to stay on as tenants. "We've heard of so many suicides," says Margie. "Ernie and I thought our own story might open up another viewpoint to someone in the same predicament...