Word: lawyer
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Late Sunday, for instance, he phoned the White House switchboard with the list of people he wanted to interview in Atlanta: "Tell them to call me." The indefatigable operator reached Washington Lawyer Joseph Califano, who was a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, in the midst of a Georgetown dinner party. The bash included, in addition to Fritz and Joan Mondale, Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham and a platoon of Washington journalists, among them Roger Mudd of CBS, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, and TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white...
About 100 yards from the mansion, some 20 journalists stood in the rain and near-freezing temperatures, vainly trying to glean scraps of information. The first candidate to arrive was black Washington Lawyer Patricia Roberts Harris, whom Carter is believed to be considering for Secretary of HEW or HUD. When she realized that the shivering people at the iron gate were reporters, she exclaimed: "Oh, if I'd known it was you, I wouldn't have stopped!" Then she rolled up her window and sped off. When Mondale departed, a Secret Service bodyguard thumbed his nose at the reporters...
Among the others summoned by Carter were four possible candidates for Defense Secretary: Caltech President Harold Brown, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
...wanted. By last weekend it was clear that the larger departments would probably be headed by white men, however long the search went on. So Carter was faced with the decision of whether to overlook the legal credentials needed for Justice and pick someone like Patricia Harris, a black lawyer from Washington, or Barbara Jordan, or perhaps a black federal judge from Pennsylvania, Leon Higgenbotham, who has extensive legal experience but little management background. The FBI choice posed a different challenge. Mondale, especially, urged that the FBI have a director from outside Justice, a man with few ties to Carter...
Episcopalian . . . Once urged the American Bar Association to back establishment of "economy courts"-with the same court-employed lawyer representing both sides . . . Said she: "If we are to give people access to the courts, we must create some tribunal that the general public can afford...