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...threat of resignation is about the only weapon that disgruntled top officials possess. The threat does not always work very well around the White House. James Rowe, who was Franklin Roosevelt's administrative assistant, recalls that F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, used to send in his resignation periodically. Ickes never expected it to be accepted, and Roosevelt understood that the threat was a kind of body language of power. He would bring Ickes to the White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which...
...another part of the book, Cohen talks about Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's tactics in testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the SALT Two treaties. Senators are given only ten minutes to question a witness and rarely stay at meetings to hear other Senators' questions. Thus, by stringing out the simplest answers to several minutes apiece, Brown was able to avoid answering any difficult questions...
...office last week, with his favorite oil painting of a bald eagle on the wall, Watt still seemed like the raw boy from his windy prairie country of southeast Wyoming. Long-legged in his gray plaid suit, he ambled down the hall and pointed out the huge office where Harold Ickes used to work in F.D.R.'s day and remarked that he could never be comfortable there. Back in his own much smaller suite, he stretched out and began talking about his job, about his goals, about himself. As he spoke, he gradually became more emphatic, some times doubling...
...HAROLD BURGESS, 47 Storeowner, Sunland...
...most striking example of evoking the "Soviet threat" for political purposes is the most recent presidential election, when all three major candidates claimed greater U.S. military spending was necessary. This put Secretary of Defense Harold Brown in the ironic election-year position of having to defend the Carter administration's defense record while at the same time demanding new programs. In February 1980 Brown stated that "by all relevant measures, we remain the military equal or superior to the Soviet Union," while in his annual report to Congress he requested new funds for such programs as the MX missiles, cruise...