Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done in time, Jimmy Carter managed to meet his deadline: he got his full Cabinet named by Dec. 25. The final announcements came last week in three televised presentations at Carter headquarters in Plains, and the biggest of the "surprises" so often forecast by the President-elect's aides was that there were so few surprises. With 18 top jobs filled, including all twelve Cabinet positions and the main economic and national-security slots, it was clear that the man who had campaigned as Mr. Outside wanted men (and women) around him who were politically in or near...
...Mississippi's archconservative James O. Eastland, who urged Carter to appoint Bell. At week's end, moreover, some black organizations that had loudly opposed Bell appeared ready to recon sider in view of his pro-civil rights decisions. Certain Carter watchers, meanwhile, forecast that the President-elect will name some well-known civil rights activists to important jobs at Justice just to speed up the cooling-off process...
Marshall certainly wasted no time in outlining his agenda. He said he would present to President-elect Carter the "strongest case" for repealing Rule 14B, the Taft-Hartley Act's "right to work" provision authorizing states to void labor contracts requiring workers to join unions. This, in Marshall's view, would be part of an "equitable solution" under which workers could henceforth be compelled to pay dues but not to join unions. (Carter has not called for the repeal of 14B but has said he would sign a repeal if passed by Congress.) Marshall also denounced existing...
...last week: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Hers was quite an understatement. A black Washington lawyer, she knows the worlds of business, academe and government. Moreover, by appointing her, Carter got a kind of "twofer": as a black and as a woman, she is proof that the President-elect is trying to open his Cabinet to both groups...
...Pigs fiasco, he harshly criticized the CIA for misleading the White House about the chances of the Cuban invasion-though he had gone along with the plan beforehand. The most plausible explanation for the appointment is that Sorensen came highly recommended, campaigned hard for the President-elect and will, by his very inexperience in the area, make it possible for Carter to take a direct hand in running the troubled agency...