Word: dented
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FREDERICK B. DENT, 50, a Southern textile executive, will become Secretary of Commerce. A transplanted Yankee who graduated from Yale, Dent is nevertheless a regional favorite. He is president of Mayfair Mills, one of the smaller textile firms in South Carolina, and is a leader in the textile industry. He is a glutton for detail in his business. "He not only worked at the machines," says an assistant, "he got underneath the machines and counted teeth on the gears." Dent is a forthright spokesman for an industry that has been the recipient of special White House favors, namely the agreement...
...that you forward to him an indication of your personal plans or preferences regarding your possible service in the Nixon Administration. This should be accompanied by your pro forma letter of resignation to become effective at the pleasure of the President." The purpose, declared White House Special Counsel Harry Dent, is "to cut back and sharpen up. There's going to be a lot of change. The President is the quarterback...
Watchdog. As he whacks away at the bureaucracy, Nixon promises not to spare his own staff, which has grown larger than that of any previous President. Some members apparently were ready to move out quite willingly, including Dent, Speechwriter William Safire, Communications Director Herbert Klein and Special Counsel Robert Finch. Already gone is Nixon's former chief legislative aide, Clark MacGregor, who served as director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and will accept a presumably lucrative vice presidency with United Aircraft Corp. He will be the top contact man with Washington for the firm...
...meantime, dozens of the President's surrogates round the nation will be conducting a somewhat earthier campaign. Of all the possible Democratic nominees, the Republicans regard George McGovern as the most vulnerable. Says White House Political Adviser Harry Dent: "Some people around here are about to wee-wee in their pants waiting for him to get the nomination." If the South Dakotan succeeds, the President's outriders will portray McGovern as a dangerous radical bent on emasculating the Pentagon and the free-enterprise system, legalizing marijuana and abortion, abandoning U.S. commitments in Viet Nam and around the world...
...Republicans alike, to gather views on such controversial subjects as amnesty, Viet Nam, marijuana, crime and health insurance. The White House will have the final word on all of the planks, just as it is even now keeping a firm hand on convention management. Says White House Aide Harry Dent: "It's going to be pretty well automated; Rockefeller's right, Reagan's right, and when they're right there can't be much wrong...