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...Laird conceded that he does not expect to win every intra-White House debate. "I've been in the minority on many issues. You have to decide the position where you can compromise-that's what Government is all about." Not so subtly criticizing past White House operations, Laird stressed the need to cooperate with Congress. "If you just want to fix blame, that's one thing," he said. "But if you want solutions to problems, there's got to be rapport...
...midweek the President's three top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, rushed home from an international bankers' meeting in Paris. Nixon's new domestic policy chief, Melvin Laird, told newsmen that he would recommend tighter economic controls...
...taxes, mailing social security checks and performing the myriad other housekeeping tasks of Government. But in many matters requiring policy decisions, a creeping paralysis has set in. In one of his first public pronouncements after being appointed Nixon's chief domestic adviser last week, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird declared:"The Government in some quarters is at a standstill...
Since the Watergate findings forced their resignations, the army of bureaucrats and other Government officials are having difficulty getting firm direction. The arrival of Laird at the White House could improve matters. Until very recently the Administration has also been hard put to find good people to fill key Administration slots that require Senate confirmation. At present about 30 are vacant, among them an Under Secretary of Treasury, a Deputy Secretary of Defense and 20 ambassadorships...
...Watergate mess has left its mark in varying degrees on some key departments and agencies. The State Department is operating effectively under Secretary William P. Rogers, but the Defense Department has gone through three Secretaries in less than six months. Elliot Richardson had barely succeeded Laird when Watergate made it necessary for him to take the job of Attorney General and be replaced by James Schlesinger, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency...