Word: krafts
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This week came discouraging news. Carter's appointments secretary Tim Kraft disclosed that Carter had been getting up at 5:30 a.m. to cram in more study time, then going back to the office after supper to work on accumulated papers. He has divided the "users of the President's time" into nine categories (examples: Cabinet, political leaders, Congress, staff) to try to achieve more efficiency. But somebody who saw Carter said he looked tired. He talked only about the fun he was having. Another workaholic...
...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...presidential appointments secretary because of reports that he had improperly collected unemployment benefits while running a Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...
...statement that American troops should never be used to check any possible invasion of Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union in a post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft asked Carter about it during the final TV debate. Ford pounced on it, arguing correctly that it was a grave mistake to rule out options in advance. Henry Kissinger followed up on TV, saying that Carter did not understand the "art of foreign policy." Carter tried to counter Ford...
UNEMPLOYMENT. Quite properly, Ford "violently disagreed" with Kraft's assertion that Ford's current economic record is "rotten." Carter was excessive when, in response to Ford's claim of vast economic gains under his Administration, he declared-in the evening's most biting remark: "President Ford ought to be ashamed of making that statement." Yet Carter was correct in pointing out that unemployment reached its highest level since the Depression after Ford took office (8.9% in May 1975). Mistakenly thinking that Carter had specifically referred to low unemployment in the 1950s, Ford said the figures were...