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Mclntyre, a quiet Georgian, is already slashing...
...Inauguration Day last January, 42 Ray relatives showed up, and the Governor's Georgian mansion was as lively and cozy as the two-bedroom house where she and her four sisters had been brought up. There was a football game on the front lawn and jars of plums and applesauce from Fox Island in the kitchen. Ray plopped down into the high-backed chair in her office, twirling a plastic glass filled with champagne. "Well, we made it," she announced. "How sweet...
...weeks ago that Lance quit. By letting the crisis drag on, Carter raised troubling questions about his instincts as a President and politician. Before making a decision, he hears out advocates with a variety of often conflicting viewpoints. But six of the seven aides closest to him are fellow Georgians. They are hardworking, shrewd and bright, but new to Washington. Notably, the one non-Georgian in the inner circle, Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, the former vice mayor of Rochester, was also the only one to come out publicly against Lance...
Even as a few of the Senators most directly challenged by him recovered their composure and revealed some of the weaknesses in his position, the affable Georgian remained a cool and fluent witness. Though he absorbed some telling blows as the questioning continued into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose...
After four months of bit-by-bit exposure and mounting pressure, the Lance affair last week spun out of anyone's control. Instead of winding down, investigations were being stepped up into the capriciously loose banking habits of Bert Lance, the amiable Georgian who directs the Office of Management and Budget. Each day brought torrents of new allegations, rumors of wrongdoing, hints of still more probes. Inevitably, reports surfaced that Jimmy Carter has reluctantly concluded that Lance must resign. Before long, perhaps before this week is out, one of the President's first major appointees is likely to become...