Word: hartmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, including Counsellors Robert Hartmann and John O. Marsh and Press Secretary Ron Nessen, finally moved back to the Red Room for brandy, cigars and more conversation. For Ford, the evening was a relaxing opportunity to reflect on the broader historical and philosophical contexts of his decisions and, in a way, a remedial crash course in presidential perspectives...
Trying to operate somewhere between the secretive, closed-door policy of Nixon and the earlier open-door tendencies of Ford, Rumsfeld has managed to bring most of the staff under control-with the conspicuous exception of Bob Hartmann, 57, Ford's longtime, imperious adviser who often writes presidential speeches without consulting anybody else. In any event, Ford's aim by the first of the year is to have remade the Nixon White House clearly in his own Administration's image...
...aides, who are deeply concerned about inflation. White House political advisers are primarily worried about the danger of recession, and they pressed for stimulative measures to head it off and help the people who would be most hurt. Arguing for this were Donald Rumsfeld, new staff coordinator, and Robert Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor. They were joined by Economist Paul McCracken, who as Nixon's first chairman of the CEA, helped formulate the original "game plan" strategy of combatting inflation with budget and monetary restraints; that policy slowed the economy but did not do enough to brake prices...
...Embassy Row one night last week, the conversation flowed as easily as the vintage French wine. The guests, all elegantly dressed, were a sprinkling of the capital's elite: the envoys and finance ministers of half a dozen nations, American and British financiers and top White House Aides Robert Hartmann and Philip Buchen. The host, the modern equivalent of a Levantine legate, was Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's Ambassador to the U.S. There was pearl-sized gray caviar from the Caspian, of course. But the most remarked-upon item was the menu itself: it was lavishly printed on oversize imitation American...
...Joining Hartmann in the Oval Office, Ford twice read the speech aloud, wrote in a few changes to make it flow more easily, and added the line referring to Nixon's health. Then he moved to a small adjoining office and began phoning congressional leaders; he had not previously informed them?or Jaworski ?of the highly secret decision to pardon...