Word: hartmann
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...Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted the major blame pinned on Congress for its alleged failure to live up to those accords by cutting back aid to Saigon. Others knew that the facts were not so simple. At any rate, Ford's closest White House advisers, including Counsellor Robert Hartmann, felt that nothing could be gained by dwelling on past mistakes or misguided policy, and they pleaded for a forward-looking presidential leadership that would stress the need for national unity...
...political struggles that lie ahead, obviously the best thing Ford has going for him is his unimperial presidential temperament. As his aide Bob Hartmann puts it: "The Democrats would love for the President to lose his cool, get mad and have a temper tantrum. But he doesn't look back and brood. His philosophy is that each time you huddle, you line up for a new play regardless of whether you've gained or lost on the last...
...appealing permissiveness took a fearful toll of orderly decisionmaking. Out of a sense of continuity or perhaps a misplaced compassion, Ford was very tardy in ejecting the Nixon holdovers, some of whom had nothing to add to the White House except mischief. His closest aide, Robert Hartmann, openly quarreled with Nixon's lingering Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The dust did not settle until Haig was shipped off to Europe as commander of NATO forces...
Power clashes are inevitable in so high-powered an atmosphere as the White House; eventually Rumsfeld could collide with Rockefeller-and that would be a spark-producing encounter. But Rumsfeld is more likely to run afoul of Bob Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor and chief speechwriter. Alternately genial and abrasive, Hartmann perfectly reflects his boss's Grand Rapids conservatism. In time, Jerry Ford may be forced to choose between his past politics as represented by Hartmann and the national outlook represented by Rockefeller and Rumsfeld...
...serves in the same post he held under Nixon: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He does double duty by also running the State Department. Along with Kissinger, four other aides have Cabinet rank: Donald Rumsfeld, 42, who replaced Alexander Haig as chief of staff; Robert Hartmann, 57, who handles speechwriting chores as Ray Price did under Nixon; Philip W. Buchen, 59, who has assumed Leonard Garment's legal duties; and John O. Marsh Jr., 48, who succeeds William Timmons as chief liaison with Congress. These four, in addition to their specific assignments, also serve as "floaters...