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There are only 79 short, hectic days between the euphoria of Election Night and the solemn Capitol Hill ceremony in which James Earl Carter Jr. will be inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States. They are crucial days for the new Chief Executive, as he selects the official and unofficial brain trust that will work with him in transforming campaign rhetoric into political reality...
Through the week Carter kept up a hectic pace. He flew to Atlanta and Washington, conferred with scores of businessmen, Congressmen, northeastern Governors; the future Commander in Chief also called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and toured the national military command center. On appointments, however, he remained intentionally slow and methodical. While flying on a chartered Boeing 727 from Atlanta to Washington, he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "These may be the most important two months of my first term. I'm anxious to get people into their jobs so that...
...Faculty Club. Rep.-elect Thomas Corcoran (R-III.) yesterday praised the weeklong session as a valuable opportunity for new congressmen to "get a head start on their new jobs." And Hayakawa, speaking at another Institute of Politics reception yesterday, said the program was helpful for him in the hectic task of getting used to his "new trade...
...billed himself as a man who could grab Washington by the scruff of its neck and shake some sense into it. But when Jimmy Carter left the capital last week after a hectic two-day visit, the self-styled "outsider" smiled and allowed, "I feel at home here." Washington seemed to feel at home with...
...Nigel Nicolson's phrase, led a "scintillating social life." When she had nothing else to do, she typed manuscripts for her friend Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians) or scurried to raise a fund of ?500 a year to free T.S. Eliot from his job at the bank. Despite this hectic, variegated life, she wrote up to six letters...