Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, President Ford confidently introduced Andrew E. Gibson, 52, to newsmen as his choice to become federal energy administrator at year's end. But last week the White House announced with great embarrassment that it was holding up Gibson's formal nomination while the FBI checked more thoroughly into his background as a corporate executive and former head of the U.S. Maritime Administration. Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen explained lamely that the nomination had been decided on hastily (Ford had just forced John C. Sawhill's resignation as FEA chief), without time to conduct the usual...
...startling admission, brought on largely by press inquiries. Rumors about the little-known Gibson's ties to the oil-shipping industry had been circulating in Washington since his selection, and they surfaced last week in a detailed article in the Wall Street Journal. The gist of the story...
...freighter captain when he was only 22, Gibson later became a senior vice president of Grace Lines, then worked briefly for an international consulting firm before being appointed head of the Maritime Administration in 1969. In that post, he helped to draft legislation that made more U.S. shipbuilders eligible for Government subsidies...
Disputed Implications. While still at the Maritime Administration, the Journal reported, Gibson was approached by and began negotiating for a job with Interstate Oil Transport Co., then a small barge and tug company. In early June 1972 he moved up to Assistant Secretary of Commerce, but he joined the Philadelphia-based Interstate as its president in January 1973. After only 16 months on the job, Gibson left Interstate last May in disagreement over its merger with a subsidiary of Cities Service Co., a big oil company. But Interstate had already agreed to buy out his contract if he left...
...Andrew E. Gibson, 52, an almost unknown shipping executive and former Government official, who will succeed Sawhill as head of the FEA at year's end. Gibson captained a World War II troop-and cargo-carrying Liberty ship when he was only 22, later became a senior vice president of Grace Lines, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration and an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He is known as a no-nonsense executive...