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Such is the frenetic working pace -and enormous influence over the President-of Robert Trowbridge Hartmann, 57, Ford's chief speechwriter, political adviser, troubleshooter and confidant. Other White House intimates regard the conservative Hartmann as Ford's most trusted Counsellor. "The President knows that Bob is smarter than hell and straight as an arrow with him," says Bryce Harlow, an ex-adviser to Richard Nixon who serves on Ford's kitchen cabinet. Adds another presidential aide: "Bob's the President's eyes and ears. It would be impossible to overemphasize his importance." Summoned...
...Hartmann who persuaded Ford to strive for independence as Vice President and avoid becoming overcommitted to Nixon's Watergate defense. Hartmann crafted Ford's well-received Inaugural Address, his first speech as President to Congress and his speech last week appealing for leniency for deserters and draft dodgers. Hartmann also was the only White House aide who participated in Ford's selection of a nominee for Vice President. He tabulated the names recommended by Republican Congressmen, Governors and others, and later discreetly checked out the three finalists, though Ford never confided in him that he had settled...
...President wrote his soothing, low-keyed speech?which he described as "just a little straight talk among friends . . . the first of many"?beginning late Wednesday night, with the help of his chief of staff, Robert Hartmann, and Speechwriter Milton Friedman. With genuine humility, Ford conceded that "you have not elected me as your President by your ballots," and asked that he be confirmed "with your prayers." He emphasized the need for truth and promised to follow his "instincts of openness and candor." Time and again Ford talked about his "friends," not once mentioning enemies, domestic or foreign. Implicitly...
...MARILYN HARTMANN MORRIS Aliquippa...
...sleep is dream sleep. In ad dition to the long sleeper's measurably greater need to dream - that is, to mull over the problems of wakeful life-Psychiatrist Hartmann proposes another function of sleep. Since the long sleeper shows more symptoms of emotional problems than the short sleeper, who resolutely avoids his problems anyway, it seems that he may use his hours in bed to give his subconscious sleeping self more time to examine these problems and, if possible, to work them...