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...been beaming that message at Japan for months. In September, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps visited Tokyo and warned of growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A few weeks later in Washington, Vice President Walter Mondale shocked a group of Japanese politicians. They interpreted Mondale's remarks as constituting a charge that Fukuda had lied when he pledged a reduction in the trade surplus...
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...
...constituents were troubled by conditions on land, especially Social Security. Many were stunned by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps' suggestion that it might be better for an individual to wait until age 68 rather than the current 62 or 65 to receive benefits. An irate woman complained: "The working class has really been overburdened with taxes and inflation. Now you're taking away our playtime." Hastily dissociating himself from Kreps' trial balloon, Studds responded that many of his constituents wanted to lower the age for receiving payments to 60 or even 55. Said he: "The toughest...
...defense, the White House argues that it has given more good jobs to women than any previous Administration. No other President had more than one woman Cabinet member; now there are two-Commerce's Juanita M. Kreps and HUD's Patricia Roberts Harris. Carter has named two women as Under Secretaries (compared with Ford's one), 15 as Assistant Secretaries or officials of equivalent rank (four for Ford). In the Executive Office of the President, there are five female officials at "level 4 or over," a bureaucratic classification denoting jobs paying at least $50,000. Ford...
...women in the Cabinet received much of their income as directors of several corporations: Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, fees of $61,150 plus a $30,106 salary as a vice president and professor at Duke University; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris, fees of $40,535 and $55,725 as a Washington lawyer. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus earned the least: $33,000 as Governor of Idaho...