Word: hartmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several close advisers went over the final legal details of the pardon. He was still not completely sure that he would grant it, but, says one participant, "his mind was 95% made up." After that meeting, two old friends stayed behind with Ford. They were Buchen and Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose long association with the President enables him to capture Ford's style and inner thoughts in speeches. Ford talked out his reasons and his beliefs, and the two men went off to put them into a brief personal statement. Hartmann finished it overnight...
While these major changes lie in the future, Ford has already relaxed the mood of the White House and quietly put a number of his closest advisers on his staff. Jerry terHorst, 52, the former political reporter for the Detroit News, is performing capably as Press Secretary. Robert Hartmann, 57, Ford's long time close aide, is ensconced in Rose Mary Woods' old office. Philip Buchen, 58, the President's early law partner back home in Grand Rapids, is White House Counsel. John Marsh, 48, who was serving as a Democratic Congressman from Virginia when...
...Hartmann returned to Washington two years later as publicist for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, became editor of position papers for the House Republican Conference hi 1966 and began his close association with Ford, who was then Republican leader hi the House. In 1969 Hartmann joined Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility...
When Ford became Vice President, he named Hartmann his chief of staff. But Hartmann proved to be a poor administrator, and after Ford was sworn in as President he made a point of retaining General Alexander M. Haig Jr. as White House chief of staff. Hartmann nonetheless remains the President's most influential and most nearly indispensable adviser. To master the grueling White House pace, he has given up cigarettes, coffee and martinis and dropped, at least temporarily, his hobby of snorkeling and taking underwater photographs near his vacation home in St. Croix. He still swims daily...
...record in private enterprise, diplomacy, the Federal Government and as Governor of New York, President Ford put him at the top of his list. "The President was not looking for the survival of the Republican Party but for the survival of the Republic," explained his chief aide Robert Hartmann. "The overwhelming criterion was whether the Vice President could step into the top spot...