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Even with eleven spots nailed down, that would still leave six high positions open: the Secretaries of Defense, HEW, HUD and Commerce, and the heads of the FBI and CIA. Carter is also thinking of creating a new Cabinet-level energy department. One possibility to head it: former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, a firm advocate of strong energy conservation measures. Schlesinger, who met with the President-elect in Plains, Ga., at week's end, is known to believe that the new energy "czar" ought to sit on the National Security Council...
...could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility for HEW...
...Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
Storybook corporate career woman, considered for top job at either HUD, HEW or Commerce . . . Age 44 . . . Put herself through University of Maryland . . . Joined IBM as trainee in 1955 . . . In her twenties ran IBM's missile-tracking station in Bermuda . . . Took leave in 1966 to be first woman White House Fellow; worked for HUD Chief Robert Weaver. Returned to IBM as executive assistant to former Chairman Thomas Watson Jr. . . . Starting in 1972, served as vice president for public and government relations . . . Considered firm as well as charming...
Washington attorney in the running for HUD and HEW . . . Age 52 . . . Born in an Illinois corn-belt town, daughter of a railroad waiter, finished No. 1 at Howard University and George Washington University Law School . . . Has 30 honorary degrees . . . Taught law at Howard...