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...witnessed," says Clark Clifford, 70, the Washington lawyer who has been a confidant of Presidents since Harry Truman's day. Clifford claims to see the definite possibility of greatness in Carter because he is unquestionably brainy, determined and dedicated. Another Washington figure professes he is not dismayed by the Georgian's uncertain transition. "I will give President Carter the benefit of every doubt until we see the performance," says President Gerald Ford...
...PEOPLE. Vice President-elect Walter Mondale admires ?and wishes he could emulate?Carter's ability to express warm affection. Carter and his wife hold hands as naturally in public as though they were on a high school date. The Georgian has extraordinary empathy with children. During the campaign, he took time out to talk to grade school kids?about civics, peanut butter, civil liberties?and never talked down to them. Once Carter asked a correspondent about his family. The reporter mentioned that one of his children was suffering from an incurable disease?and turned to see tears running down...
...DRIVE FOR POWER. Carters charmingly modest demeanor contrasts sharply with a lifetime of superachieving and his single-minded drive to reach the presidency. Even Congressman Andrew Young, a friend and Carter's chosen Ambassador to the U.N., has been put off at times by the cold way his fellow Georgian stalked power...
That speech pushed Carter too far to the left, and he later tried to move back toward the middle. But his position in the political spectrum remained unclear, and he alienated many of the independents. On Nov. 2 Ford carried white America by a narrow margin. The Georgian was saved by the Americans who trusted him most: the blacks. They felt at ease with the white Southerner who had fought, though vainly, to integrate his hometown church, and who had put so many blacks into government at all levels in Georgia. Indeed, they had more faith in Carter than...
Carter's first choice had been the remote but brilliant Schlesinger. In reporting to Carter on his private trip to China last fall, Schlesinger impressed the Georgian with his expertise and intellectuality. Although Schlesinger is widely seen as a hard-line hawk, Carter found they were in surprising agreement on many defense matters. Schlesinger supports Carter's call for a phased U.S. withdrawal from Korea, for example, and now agrees that $5 billion to $7 billion of waste can be cut from the Pentagon budget after...