Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inner fire that is one of Anne Bancroft's gifts in lighting up a stage is banked most of the evening, and all that relieves a kind of fatalistic pessimism is a flash of wry humor. "Requiescat in pace" seems more appropriate than "Shalom" for this show...
Stuart Eizenstat, executive director of the Domestic Council. The only member of this inner circle without an economics background, he is "the keeper of the campaign promises," as another member described him, constantly reminding colleagues of the positions that Carter took before election. Eizenstat rarely raises his voice during discussions of where business is heading, but he injects a strong liberal viewpoint when talk turns to issues like the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill, which the President promised last week to support...
Each month, Blumenthal, Schultze and McIntyre lunch with the President and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns. Burns also breakfasts weekly with Blumenthal. Despite that regular contact, Burns is not a member of the inner circle, and his insistence on moderate growth is out of step with the Administration's current desire to push the economy ahead at a faster pace. Burns, of course, wields great independent power over the nation's money supply; last week he reaffirmed his determination, despite Administration criticism, to throttle back money growth in order to "undernourish" inflation...
After receiving information from the four key advisers, plus occasional advice from Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps or Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the President reaches decisions pretty much by himself. He rarely meets with the inner four as a group; instead he hears them out individually, acting as a stern father confessor demanding a mountain of documentation to back up every policy proposal. Says one aide: "He will decide in Schultze's favor on one issue and then in Blumenthal's favor on the next. There is no principal economic policymaker outside the President...
...final event of the day, a cheap claiming race on the inner-turf track at New York's Belmont Park. With a mixed bag of nags running on a spongy grass surface, it was not the easiest race for bettors to sort out, and by the time the field of twelve horses paraded to the post, rain was falling steadily. So it was understandable that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with...