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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knows tough competition when he sees it: "If he goes into politics, I stay out," he announced, eying David Eisenhower. The two got together in Manhattan at the invitation of a new magazine, Your Place, which has published an interview with each of them. Both Robert, 24, and David, 30, admit that coming from prominent political families poses problems. Robert, a student at the London School of Economics, recalls the "white rage" he felt when he was a Harvard undergraduate and a lecturer described J.F.K. as "macho, a Harvard jocko type." But overall, he concedes that...
John Ehrlichman, former presidential assistant who just got out of jail, on Richard Nixon: "I have done my time. I don't think he is ever going to stop doing his time...
...made five airdrops of supplies along the way, landed beside him in a small plane. Uemura, 37, was full of apologies for taking two weeks longer than he had anticipated to make the grueling journey. Said he: "I'm awfully sorry I was delayed, but I finally got here...
...Congressmen are rushing to push various pet projects into the overloaded document. Expenditures for agriculture, education, community development and veterans' benefits all have been increased by at least $1 billion more than Carter proposed. Complains House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut: "We've got to stop all these bright little ideas from being passed. You add them up and multiply by 435 and you've got trouble...
...minority and women candidates for every promotion that's coming up," says Eklund. "Then pick only people who are qualified, but don't make a major issue of who is best qualified. There has never been a promotion program in any company where the best qualified person got the job in every instance." The same is true, he adds, of hiring. Of the agents to be hired by the Equitable this year, 18% will be women, 12% blacks, 6% Hispanics. People down the line attest that this system is drawing in all sorts of talent that previously...