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...bill and cut red tape to get gas supplies moving. When Carter left his Cabinet meeting, he put Schlesinger in charge of a "more thorough discussion." Says a White House aide: "Schlesinger has been a sort of battlefield commander. He's been in the middle of the fray, not in a tower in the White House." An early riser, Schlesinger has been calling his aides at 7a.m. "Jim has imparted a sense of urgency," says an aide who does not mind being awakened...
...officials and the staff." Miller explains, with some justice, that almost from the day he was elected, opponents have tried to undermine his administration. First, he says, it was the obstructionist international board, then the opposition of U.M.W. Vice President Mike Trbovich, who has been forced out of the fray by his own overheated charges about Communists in the Miller administration. Miller, 53, who has lungs ravaged by black-lung disease and a face scarred from World War II wounds, insists that he delivered on U.M.W. democracy with a new union constitution, rank-and-file veto power over contracts...
Rupture. Chirac jumped into the fray after weeks of backroom negotiations between Giscardians and Gaullists failed to produce a compromise on a candidate. Calling Ornano's candidacy already a failure, Chirac said he was offering his own "so that the capital of France does not run the risk of falling into Socialist-Communist hands." The logic convinced no one. Premier Raymond Barre, visibly angered, charged that Chirac's move would sow such political confusion in the ranks of the majority that his economic-recovery program would be "compromised." Added Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet: "Far from strengthening the majority...
...fray developed, President Ford's choice was his efficient and low-keyed campaign manager, James Baker of Texas. Early in January, Ford endorsed Baker, but he was opposed by Ronald Reagan, and John Connally was indifferent. Baker had some other problems as well. Word got out that he had $1.8 million left in the campaign kitty last fall and failed to spend it during Ford's come-from-behind stretch drive...
...give-'em-hell partisan stem-winder. Rather than concentrating on making peace with Reagan, he probably will try to unite the party by declaring war on Jimmy Carter. Some of his advisers have urged him to recognize his shortcomings as a campaigner, to remain "presidential" and above the fray in the fall and to let his running mate lead the charge against the Democrats. But two years on the job have ignited a fire in Ford's belly, and he is strongly inclined to reject that advice. Not that he is unaware of his shortcomings, but he accepts...