Word: businessmen
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Regulation. Carter did not erect the network of transportation, labor, safety and environmental regulations that many businessmen feel is strangling them, and his criticisms of the abuses of Big Government during the primary campaign led some to believe that he would make the regulations less onerous. Now they can see no sign that he has or will. CEA Chairman Schultze contends that the Administration has brought about some improvement in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had gained well-deserved notoriety for enforcing niggling rules. That is news to executives, who find OSHA as petty-minded as ever...
Bert Lance. Businessmen did not think Carter should have kept Lance as Director of the Office of Management and Budget; some, indeed, regard the President's long defense of Lance as evidence of unreasonable stubbornness. Nonetheless, now that Lance is gone, they feel they have lost their only real friend in high Administration councils. Says General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones: "Bert Lance was one who was quite close to the President, never failed to return a call that was made to him, never failed to grant us an interview, and always was a conduit through which our thinking could...
Lance's exit especially troubles businessmen because they feel Carter, whatever his own sentiments, has filled the Administration's second-level posts with people who have no sympathy for them and favor more regulation. Oilmen are particularly suspicious of S. David Freeman, who helped Schlesinger draft the energy program; they regard him as a doctrinaire conservationist who does not even want to increase energy production. William P. Tavoulareas, president of Mobil Oil Corp., adds that "everybody we see in the Interior Department these days is an environmentalist...
...Businessmen, of course, do not judge Carter solely on economic issues; like other citizens, they are still trying to make sense of the President's personality. Many have concluded that Carter is a headstrong man who cannot believe he is ever wrong. Says Matz of John Hancock: "I think that it has become clear that he brings to the job his own values as a Georgia-born and -bred peanut farmer and he does not have much use for other people's values. He operates less on consensus than other Presidents have...
Carter has his defenders in the business community. John D. deButts, chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., calls the attention of his executive colleagues to the proposals favoring business in the draft tax-reform program. Sampson contends that businessmen are judging Carter too quickly. Says he: "It's almost as if he were being photographed every 15 minutes to see if he's aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter...