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...delicate foreign policy initiatives-an open-door policy with Peking, arms talks with Moscow, parleys with Hanoi to end the war in Southeast Asia. Fearing that publicity might imperil these negotiations, Nixon and his national security adviser, Kissinger, resolved to keep them secret. Not even Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers were to be fully informed...
...budget, which will chart the course of the Government. Only Energy Czar William Simon has been in frequent touch with Nixon lately (see cover story page 22). The White House staff will soon be weakened by the departure of the only two seasoned political aides that Nixon has. Melvin Laird will be leaving at the end of this month, and Bryce Harlow has said he will not be far behind. Both Laird and Harlow were persuaded to join the White House after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Nixon's two top aides, resigned last April over Watergate...
Demanding Boss. The hope among White House staffers is that Vice President Gerald Ford will perform Laird's role as a top-level troubleshooter while also influencing domestic policy. But to accomplish this, Ford will have to become a commanding figure in his own right, something no Vice President in history has been able to do. Says one key White House assistant: "Let's wait six weeks and see how it works...
Ziegler is not only Nixon's window on the world, he is the aide more responsible than anyone-Laird, Harlow or any of the lawyers-for shaping the President's Watergate policy. Ziegler is a hardliner, urging the President to keep his cooperation and disclosures to the barest minimum as he deals with his adversaries in the courts and Congress. The release last week of the President's incomplete and undocumented statements on the milk fund and ITT was planned by Ziegler...
...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...