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Powerful Wall Streeters began looking for a replacement last year. One who was considered: Melvin Laird. Two weeks ago, Batten was persuaded to take over the chairmanship while Needham was in Europe. When Needham returned early last week, he was presented with a fait accompli. He resigned. His successor Batten may well be only a caretaker chairman. Among candidates to succeed him eventually: Paul Kolton, current chairman of the American Stock Exchange and Donald Marron, the brilliant (IQ: 190) chief of Mitchell, Hutchins, a Wall Street brokerage house. Needham plans to stay on as a consultant to Batten...
...first to take a shot at Kissinger was Melvin Laird, one of the chief cooks in Ford's kitchen Cabinet, who predicted to newsmen that "we will have a new Secretary of State in the next Ford Administration." Four days later, Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign chairman, told a delegation of California Republicans that after seven years as the nation's top diplomat, Kissinger "has enough scars to worry about. I'm sure Mr. Kissinger is getting toward the end of a long political career...
...Year by sitting at home in front of their television set, sipping champagne and swaying gently to the mellow music of Guy Lombardo. On New Year's Day, the Fords invited some of their Midwestern friends -Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, Wisconsin's John Byrne and Melvin Laird, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor and their wives-to a White House dinner. The point of the informal gathering was to watch Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan, uphold the Midwest's football prestige by thumping the University of Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. But Michigan lost...
Looking ahead, former Defense Secretary Mel Laird and Rockefeller are urging Ford to use next month's State of the Union message to stake out an ambitious, four-year program covering such subjects as welfare reform, revenue sharing and a national health insurance plan. "The President has a lot of resources at his disposal," says one adviser, one resource being, of course, the power of the White House. "The question is whether he has the willingness and toughness to use them...
...following eventful days: Oct. 16. Ford's unofficial group of advisers, who had been meeting periodically with him and a few senior White House aides for more than a year, held another of their straight-talking, "you've got problems, Jerry" sessions. Ford was told by Harlow, Laird, Griffin and others that he was not conveying a take-charge image in foreign policy. The conflicting signals on SALT and détente from Kissinger and Schlesinger were confusing the public...