Word: governors
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Presidential aides in Washington said that Carter had been repeatedly told at Camp David that he needed someone of stature at the White House who had close contacts in top intellectual, political, diplomatic and financial circles. Donovan, who has known Carter since he was Governor of Georgia, was suggested for such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...
Hardly had Moon Landrieu taken office as a 29-year-old Louisiana state legislator in 1960 when segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis called a special session to resist federal integration orders. The vote in favor of ramming through the segregation package was 93 to 1. The dissenter: Moon Landrieu. Colleagues told him that his political career was ruined; his family was showered with death threats. "I certainly wasn't a Sir Lancelot," Landrieu now insists. "I was miserable because I couldn't figure out a way to evade or finesse the issue...
...political age. The procession of candidates now forming to challenge Carter in the 1980 election reflects fundamental problems of leadership. The two who display some size and fire, John Connally and Ted Kennedy (who is resolutely undeclared but watching with interest), come with reputations shadowed by their pasts. California Governor Jerry Brown, with his sleek vocabularies of "planetary realism," sounds like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation...
...Bunting, "there are proportionately as many Hamiltons, Jeffersons and Franklins as in 1776. But there is nothing which calls their kinds of talents and energies automatically into the public sector. They have available chairs of classics at Brown University and directorships at Gulf Oil, what have you." A Southern Governor agrees: "It was probably much easier for David Rockefeller to be chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a powerful position in which he exercised leadership and control, than to weather the strains of public office, as did his brother Nelson...
North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt succeeded in pushing through a mandatory minimal competency test for high school graduation?normally one of those awful contests between reflexive liberals, who oppose standardized testing as unfair, and the Marines of morality, who want everyone to shape up. Strongly opposed by some blacks and teachers, Hunt tried to persuade the state that he did not wish to punish anyone but simply wanted to establish some basic levels of competence in education. When simple persuasion did not work, Hunt tried