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Power clashes are inevitable in so high-powered an atmosphere as the White House; eventually Rumsfeld could collide with Rockefeller-and that would be a spark-producing encounter. But Rumsfeld is more likely to run afoul of Bob Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor and chief speechwriter. Alternately genial and abrasive, Hartmann perfectly reflects his boss's Grand Rapids conservatism. In time, Jerry Ford may be forced to choose between his past politics as represented by Hartmann and the national outlook represented by Rockefeller and Rumsfeld...
Presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong, the top woman appointed to the White House by Nixon, resigned last week. Her duties as liaison with G.O.P...
...deeply concerned about inflation. White House political advisers are primarily worried about the danger of recession, and they pressed for stimulative measures to head it off and help the people who would be most hurt. Arguing for this were Donald Rumsfeld, new staff coordinator, and Robert Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor. They were joined by Economist Paul McCracken, who as Nixon's first chairman of the CEA, helped formulate the original "game plan" strategy of combatting inflation with budget and monetary restraints; that policy slowed the economy but did not do enough to brake prices...
...Ford and several close advisers went over the final legal details of the pardon. He was still not completely sure that he would grant it, but, says one participant, "his mind was 95% made up." After that meeting, two old friends stayed behind with Ford. They were Buchen and Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose long association with the President enables him to capture Ford's style and inner thoughts in speeches. Ford talked out his reasons and his beliefs, and the two men went off to put them into a brief personal statement. Hartmann finished it overnight...
Last week's appointments indicate that Ford wants to move out many of the people who were close to Nixon in his last months. Ford's selection of Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush as chief of the U.S. mission in Peking, and Presidential Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rush as ambassador to Paris, served this purpose while filling important diplomatic posts with men of stature. Ford also intends to dispatch Peter M. Flanigan, another Nixon stalwart, as Ambassador to Spain...