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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Commission Chairman Michael Pertschuk, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977, has become the lightning rod of criticism against the FTC. An ebullient, Yale-trained lawyer with a crusader's rapid-fire zeal, Pertschuk has further raised the ire of both congressional leaders and business. Senator Ford accuses him of turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator...
...reformers really mean to punish the FTC and severely limit its powers." In an attempt to stop such congressional action, top Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat sent an urgent plea to Senator Ford, arguing that the Senate was about to "undermine the capacity of Government agencies to meet real public needs...
...main challengers to Jimmy Carter are beginning to stake out positions on that premier fret of the American public: the economy. So far, they are producing no ideas that seem much different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading...
...emphasizing his economic "pragmatism." Last week Mobil's outspoken public affairs vice president, Herbert Schmertz, joined the Kennedy campaign staff as a top media adviser, even though Schmertz has repeatedly condemned the Senator's attacks on the oil industry. Kennedy supports the budget-paring efforts of Carter, but he fought this year to protect social spending programs from major cuts and co-sponsored legislation for such programs as federal funding for nurses' training and money for school lunches...
...nothing else, the me-too familiarity of almost all the leading candidates shows just how intractable the nation's economic problems really are. So far, the challengers to Carter in Campaign 1980 have done little more than rehash the safe, the secure and the unexciting...