Word: griffin
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Jackson promised to seek a meeting soon with Attorney General Griffin Bell to demand that the Justice Department take a "new look at evidence in the case" and to press for a new trial. Whether Ray receives it may depend on the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This week, the panel is scheduled to hear testimony from Ray and a number of black leaders...
Over breakfast the next day, Carter tried to mollify O'Neill. "It's just one of those things," said the President. "They [Solomon and Griffin] didn't get along." Exploded O'Neill: "It's the way you did it, in the middle of a scandal...
...President then launched a remarkable campaign to undo his own deed. Griffin was invited to the White House, where officials praised his talents as an administrator. Most important, Vice President Walter Mondale was assigned the task of finding him another job. At midweek, the White House announced that Griffin had accepted a newly created $50,000-a-year appointment as a "senior assistant" to Robert Strauss, the President's Special Trade Representative and Counselor on inflation...
Nobody seemed to know exactly what Griffin was supposed to do-"a little of everything," said Strauss-but it was obvious that, with his congressional connections, he could be useful in lobbying. Tip O'Neill seemed partially mollified. "The performance between the Administration and the Speaker's office is on the same course as it has always been," he said...
...Jerry Rafshoon, newly hired to improve Carter's image, who had argued most forcefully, that Carter should press ahead with the dismissal of Griffin regardless of O'Neill's anger. Backing off, he said, would make the President look indecisive. In the end, the Administration's handling of the Griffin affair seemed not only indecisive but inept...