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Even as Ford prepared to take over the Administration from Nixon in August 1974, some members of his informal "kitchen cabinet"?which included former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Presidential Aide Bryce Harlow, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, and then NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld?had...
Freed from the endless political bickering, Rocky hopes to be able to devote his remaining months as Vice President to the urgent national problems that have always concerned him. But stripped of his political power, he may find that he lacks clout in other areas as well. Instead of being...
It's telling that in his answer to Ford, Beame picked up the metaphor of disease but changed its nature substantially. "The best cure for our financial ills," he said, "is to have an opportunity to recuperate under a strictly supervised regimen of reform and retrenchment." Beame's New York...
"Consulting is a Harvard phenomenon," says ZviGriliches, Professor of Economics. "At the University of Chicago we were paid a good salary and expected to devote time to teaching--academics was always number one. But implicit in the offer of a Harvard professorship is the fact that one can take a...
Bossert said last night the "sense" of the meeting was that the administration should not devote its limited time and energy to studying the proposals that are "not particularly popular" and not likely to happen.