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Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell and the rest of the Georgia Mafia may have been great campaign aides, but they are not experienced in power. Perhaps Carter should enlarge and enrich his staff and get people who know how this city runs. Nothing is so effective in the White House as a staff of young men and women who love the office, love the work, love the city, love politics, and who travel through the back corridors with laughter and zest...
Henry Kissinger used to say that there is no way that people in the White House can educate themselves after they take office. They have to deal with the day-to-day crises, and there is no energy left over to enrich their backgrounds. True, they get street-wise and more experienced in the tactics of Government, but if an Administration does not know where it wants to go before Inauguration Day, the chances are it may never find out once in power...
...between 1975 and January 1977-were granted for the express purpose of enabling Lance to buy, with two partners, a majority share of the stock in his own bank. Federal law forbids banks to make such loans to their own officers, lest unscrupulous bankers use depositors' money to enrich themselves; but the law is silent about stock-purchase loans to correspondent bankers. Yet if a banker cannot borrow money from his own bank to buy its stock, why should he be allowed to borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose? It is clearly time...
...Thomas that just happened, she said, to be empty. We would pay the air fare, but then paradise would come free. "A view of the gulf", she said. "Available tennis courts. It never rains more than ten minutes a day". Don't be silly, we said. Why enrich Eastern Airlines...
...center's supporters concede that it is too early to call the project a success. Says Ford Financial Expert Stanley Seneker: "We are looking ahead to something like four or five years to make this a reasonable business proposition." Ren Cen, however, was intended not to enrich its backers but to revitalize the city. Here, too, judgment of its effectiveness is premature, but there are already a few stirrings of rebirth downtown. A new riverfront plaza is under construction near by; it boasts an obelisk and a fountain by the noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Part of Woodward Avenue will...