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...This is a very slow and detailed and thorough and deliberative process," said Jimmy Carter of his Cabinet making. Indeed it was. Despite the President-elect's public serenity, there were some serious snags−most notably in persuading the right people to serve, especially women and blacks...
Grossly Exaggerated. Critics lost no time in noting that Carter's initial appointees were all white, Establishment-connected males and that the first three Cabinet choices represented Yale (Vance), Princeton (Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury) and Harvard (Brock Adams, Secretary of Transportation). The President-elect moved to remedy this by naming Atlanta Congressman Andrew Young his Ambassador to the United Nations. The first prominent black to throw his weighty influence behind the Carter candidacy, Young candidly admitted that his friends had "been cussing me out and crying" over his decision to accept the post−one that does...
...Defense, HEW, HUD and Commerce, and the heads of the FBI and CIA. Carter is also thinking of creating a new Cabinet-level energy department. One possibility to head it: former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, a firm advocate of strong energy conservation measures. Schlesinger, who met with the President-elect in Plains, Ga., at week's end, is known to believe that the new energy "czar" ought to sit on the National Security Council...
...appoint Dr. Harold Brown for Secretary of Defense," Jimmy Carter insisted last week. In the narrowest sense that was apparently true. But the statement ignored the fact that some of Washington's sharpest political and bureaucratic infighters were flashing their knives to influence the President-elect's most difficult remaining personnel decision: whether to appoint the Caltech president to the Pentagon post or give the job back to James Schlesinger, who had been abruptly dumped by President Gerald Ford for resisting Ford's efforts to trim the defense budget...
...Charles Louis Schultze, 52. Jimmy Carter, who has come to regard him as a sort of utility infielder, considered him for several Cabinet-level posts, including Treasury and Defense, before deciding to make him chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Colleagues who have watched Schultze and the President-elect work together are struck by their rapport. Says Joseph Pechman, an informal Carter adviser and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "When Charlie talks, Carter listens. There's a special chemistry between them...