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Although the appointment of Jordan was greeted with widespread skepticism outside the White House, those closest to Carter welcomed the move. Said Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore: "It's great. We needed it. You can already tell the difference. Procedures are crisper...
...what I don't do well. What I do well is, I plan. I am organized in my head. I am not a person who relishes or is good at detail." Recognizing his own weaknesses, Jordan began an immediate search for a tough executive officer. Leading candidate: Congressional Liaison Officer Leslie Francis, 36, who is credited with improving the White House congressional liaison operation. He will perhaps be a sort of Jordan's Jordan. Sums up Jordan: "I certainly don't think of myself as the solution to all our problems...
...White House depicted by Fallows, errors, of which Congressional Liaison Frank Moore's have been "the most flagrant," are ignored out of a misguided sense of loyalty. "The goal was orderly performance. The virtues of an organization man-preserving order, preventing errors-were those Carter prized; and if an attempt to produce more imaginative policies, broader sources of information, even better speech drafts would violate these principles of order, it was not likely to prevail...
...Party Deputy Treasurer David Holmes, 48, Businessmen John Le Mesurier, 47, and George Deakin, 39 -face possible life sentences on charges of plotting the murder of a former male model, Norman Scott, 39, in order to prevent him from publicly claiming that he had had a three-year homosexual liaison with Thorpe in the 1960s. Introduced into testimony last week, for example, were two letters Thorpe had written to Scott on House of Commons stationery; he called Scott by such endearments as "Bunnies," and signed "Yours affectionately, Jeremy -P.S. I miss you." The prosecution told the jury of nine...
Unfortunately there is more to Affair than Ritchie's delicious documentary footage. The backbone of the film is a fictional liaison between Hal (Keith Carradine), a precious young independent director, and Maria (Monica Vitti), a married, middle-aged movie star. When this odd couple first start fooling around there are some amusing cross-cultural jokes, as well as touching erotic interludes in dreamy Riviera locales. But the affair quickly becomes a high-toned soap opera that devours the movie. By the end, the hero and heroine are adrift at sea in a stalled motorboat, screaming platitudes at each other...