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...brought in to improve coordination among Administration spokesmen. He will also continue to perform a delicate but important role-helping to sharpen the President's public statements. Ford, an uninspiring orator, has generally depended for his texts on his old friend and former congressional assistant, Robert Hartmann, Counsellor to the President and his chief speechwriter. Some critics have found Hartmann's drafts to be thin and full of platitudes. Gergen is expected to upgrade presidential pronouncements, though he will still not have direct authority over Hartmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Trying to Shift the Spotlight | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Narrow Margin. If Hartmann was a bit nervous about Gergen's expanded role, Press Secretary Ron Nessen was a bit defensive about the newly fortified communications office. Some newsmen have harshly, often unfairly, criticized Nessen-an ex-TV news correspondent for NBC-for his lack of knowledge about White House thinking; some Republicans have accused him of undermining Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign director, whose tendency to put his foot in his mouth has sometimes made it difficult for the White House to support him. But Gergen insisted that his appointment was not designed to undercut anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Trying to Shift the Spotlight | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...chief staff administrator, Richard Cheney, 35, gets generally high marks for making a wide range of people and conflicting ideas accessible to his boss. But the President has done little to ease the tension between Cheney, whose office has had an increasing influence on presidential speeches, and Robert Hartmann, a longtime Ford political adviser and chief speech writer. Recently Ford promoted Cheney Aide David Gergen, 34, to White House special counsel and assigned Stefan Halper, 31, to help Cheney and Gergen assess the political implications of Administration initiatives. However, both Gergen and Halper are former speechwriters, a fact that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Where Has All the Power Gone? | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Since becoming chief of the White House staff shortly after Ford rose to the presidency, Rumsfeld has been in the middle of some bitter feuds. He won a power struggle against Robert Hartmann, Ford's longtime top aide and political adviser; Hartmann is now confined largely to speechwriting. Rumsfeld also clashed with Vice President Rockefeller over staff assignments, and Rocky's men suspect that he induced Campaign Chief Howard Callaway to call the Vice President a liability to the ticket for 1976. In addition, Rumsfeld has long been uneasily at odds with Henry Kissinger, feeling that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: These Are My Guys' | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

Reeves' methods have long been heterodox. He generally avoids the telephone ("You rarely get into digressions on the phone, and digressions are often the most useful"), and he does not join those colleagues who would cover up a public figure's private pecadilloes. (Ford Aide Robert Hartmann, he writes, was "nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Thumping the Pols | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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