Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok awarded Wiesner a Doctor of Laws degree. The citation read: "In education a scientist gifted and humane, in the nation's service a counsellor wise and moderate, in Cambridge our warm friend and good neighbor...
Haig has apparently more than met the President's needs at the White House. "He practically has no self any more," says White House Counsellor Dean Burch. "He spends almost all his working hours at the White House, eating off trays, putting out fires, and putting on Band-Aids." Haig rises every morning at 6:30, scans the newspapers and reaches the West Wing of the White House at 7:50. Promptly at 8:30, he chairs a meeting of the top presidential advisers. His manner is more that of a panel moderator than a commanding general. Once...
...trader, now federal energy czar. Simon is on the verge of winning an early round: President Nixon this week is expected to name him to succeed Shultz at Treasury, a job that apparently Ash wanted. But neither man is likely to get Shultz's other titles of Economic Counsellor and chairman of the Council on Economic Policy. In a continuing move away from super Cabinet posts, the White House will probably leave those jobs vacant. So Simon and Ash are almost sure to carry on for several more months a backstairs guerrilla war for top policymaking authority...
...private practice that earned him about $300,000 a year in order to take the $42,500 federally paid job as Nixon's chief Watergate counsel. In action around the White House, St. Clair has struck Haig as "crisp and buttoned-down, but thoughtful and detailed." Adds Presidential Counsellor Bryce N. Harlow: "He's very lucid and clear-minded, very objective, self-assured and poised...
Presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong met with the President to tell him of worry about the fall elections. Her report: Nixon was "on top of his job." He had the facts, and "he is a very clear-thinking realist." But even her enthusiastic portrayal of the President blurred into generalities. "He thinks we will be out from under the energy crisis, the economy will be on the upturn...