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...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
Haar, who met with Carter two weeks ago, says he is encouraged by the amount of input his group has been granted thus far, although "they haven't taken everything we've recommended into consideration...
...nomination, and he prepared for it with a deft combination of openness and secrecy: he was demonstrably open to advice, but extremely secretive about his thinking as it evolved. As a Ford aide put it, in splendidly technocratic jargon: "His decision-making process was one of maximum input, zero feedback...
...input was massive indeed. Virtually everyone on a political visit to the White House in recent months, or to the "Oval Office West" in Kansas City last week, had a plug or a blackball for some prospect. Ford's floor manager in Kansas City, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, promoted Colleague Howard Baker (who, perhaps coincidentally, may be Griffin's chief competition for the Senate minority leader's job next January). The First Family had its preferences too. Betty Ford urged more than token consideration for Anne Armstrong; Son Jack liked a mayor, Pete Wilson of San Diego, and two Governors...
Particularly galling is the fact that this schedule was dumped in our laps with no effort at soliciting our input. Surely, if we are given the opportunity each year to vote on Harvard's Overseers, we should be given a chance to veto any scrambling of the football schedule. There can be no question about which matter is more important to alumni...