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Such is the frenetic working pace -and enormous influence over the President-of Robert Trowbridge Hartmann, 57, Ford's chief speechwriter, political adviser, troubleshooter and confidant. Other White House intimates regard the conservative Hartmann as Ford's most trusted Counsellor. "The President knows that Bob is smarter than hell and straight as an arrow with him," says Bryce Harlow, an ex-adviser to Richard Nixon who serves on Ford's kitchen cabinet. Adds another presidential aide: "Bob's the President's eyes and ears. It would be impossible to overemphasize his importance." Summoned...
...Former Congressman Marsh, 48, as a White House Counsellor...
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...