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...originally been scheduled for a Sunday-night telephone session with voters before last week's New Hampshire primary, the President himself scrapped the politicking and plunged into an anti-inflation brain-storming session. From 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., Carter, along with Chief Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, Budget Director James Mclntyre, Chief Economic Adviser Schultze, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan and Treasury Secretary Miller, reviewed the glum news and options in the Treaty Room of the White House...
...adviser urged an immediate Camp David summit of national leaders. Eizenstat proposed mandatory wage and price restraints and won some support. The President, though, remained opposed on the basis of the Nixon freeze and controls in 1971-73, when prices exploded once the controls were removed...
Thus the Administration's stand-pat policy on energy is risky. The reason new initiatives on energy have been put off and perhaps scrapped is not only that Congress showed no willingness to act on them, but also that White House aides, particularly Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, exhibited a growing fear that bold moves could cost Carter votes in the primaries and in the presidential election. Asserts one Energy Department official: "Energy policy in 1980 is going to be spelled...
Never a strong believer in the effectiveness or fairness of using higher prices to cut consumption, Eizenstat sniped incessantly at the gasoline tax. He managed to derail the proposal just before Christmas, when Carter's improved standing in the polls made the President even less willing than before to take an unpopular position...
...place of a tax, Carter intends to call for authority to impose nationwide gasoline rationing if only a 5% fuel shortage develops, instead of waiting until the shortage becomes a crippling 20%, as the law now requires. This is also a victory for Eizenstat, but there are problems with that plan. Carter's request will have a tough time passing Congress, which set the 20% requirement last year to make rationing only a last-ditch action. Also, details of an emergency rationing plan are not expected to be ready before this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that...