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...time as head of A.E.I.'s "council of academic advisers" and plays a leading role in choosing what subjects the institute will study and who will investigate them. Others helping A.E.I. on a part-time basis to build up expertise include two leaders of the Nixon Cabinet: Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, who has just finished an A.E.I. report on energy problems, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury until last January, who is starting an A.E.I. study of tax policy...
...after Isham had fallen on hard times, and Pottle took charge. Boswell's London Journal, full of ribald details of night life along the Thames, was an international bestseller in 1950, but volumes since then have subsided to a series of scholarly thuds. Volume X, The Laird of Auchinleck, which traces Boswell's life from the summer of 1778 to the fall of 1782, is scheduled to be published in September. (Three more volumes are yet to come before Boswell's death in 1795.) Even after a half-century of work, Pottle remains enthralled by his period...
Robert Hartmann, White House Counsellor and chief speechwriter, was given the assignment of collecting basic ideas from Cabinet members, senior White House staffers, campaign advisers, friendly Senators and Congressmen and old political pals like Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow. Once the suggestions were compiled, Hartmann went over them with the President, who meanwhile had been studying every presidential acceptance speech since 1948 and jotting down ideas of his own on a yellow notepad...
...advisers over coffee and nightcaps in his hotel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the night of his nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back...
...written that Novak is the so-called "brains" of the operation--the man with all the sources--and that Rollie is just there to mingle at cocktail parties. Whatever the internal dynamic, though, every one of their major sources is with the Ford camp: Alexander Haig, Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin Laird. They've buried Reagan more times this year than they resurrected Muskie in '72, and while claiming the Schweiker gambit was Reagan's only hope to stave off Invincible Jerry, they say it won't make any difference...