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Undoubtedly, Dean's career was furthered by his good looks and his command of the social graces. Detractors also suggest he was helped along by his first marriage-to Karla Hennings, the daughter of the late Senator Thomas C. Hennings of Missouri. She bore his son John IV, now 5, but the marriage ended in divorce three years ago. Last fall Dean married Maureen, a former insurance saleswoman from Los Angeles...
That will be followed, the President promised, by a Phase IV with "tighter standards" and "more mandatory compliance procedures" than those of the discredited third phase...
...President and his aides were drafting changes almost up to the moment that he announced it. Even if, as seems likely, it accomplishes a temporary slowdown in price increases, the danger remains that too much inflationary momentum has been built up for anything less than an extremely tough Phase IV to curb it. Reason: the President waited unconscionably long to take a new stand against high prices...
White House insiders say that the President really does not know yet what should be done about Phase IV. He is all but irrevocably committed to a program as tough as Phase II-and probably even tougher in the politically touchy areas of food and gasoline prices. Phase IV will also likely be expanded to include control on wages, profits and other areas...
...scandal's enervating effect on Government-the state of the U.S. economy has become Nixon's other crisis. Last week the signs multiplied that the President was about to strike back with yet another major anti-inflation program that would add up to a de facto Phase IV...