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...Klutznick to Commerce...
...down the job, as did Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, and a dozen other captains of American industry and business. But last week Jimmy Carter finally found a nominee to succeed Juanita Kreps as Secretary of Commerce. His choice: Philip M. Klutznick, 72, a multimillionaire Chicago real estate developer. Said Klutznick: "I can't say I sought the job, but considering the problems that we face in the economic field, it's not easy to say no to the President...
Actually, Klutznick has been saying yes to Presidents for decades. Son of a Kansas City, Mo., businessman, he earned his law degree at Creighton University in 1930 and practiced in Omaha until 1944, when he became commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Authority. Since then he has served in part-time posts for every President except Richard Nixon, including two years as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council during the Kennedy Administration...
...below the surface, although it occasionally breaks into the open, as it did last week when all but one member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations refused to meet with Sadat in Washington, as the Carter Administration had invited them to do. But Philip Klutznick, a Chicago businessman who heads the World Jewish Congress, attended-and drew complaints from other leaders that he was dividing and weakening the American Jewish community. Retorted Klutznick: "Our Government has exerted every bit of legitimate influence to try to keep the negotiations going, and I think that our Government should...
...think this is the most exciting metropolitan shopping location in the world," says Philip Klutznick, the real estate executive whose Urban Investment & Development Co. is building Water Tower Plaza. Lord & Taylor's Chairman Melvin Dawley is equally euphoric: "North Michigan Avenue has more vitality than Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...