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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disclosures were further delayed by a last-minute court order issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Collins in New Orleans after six federal judges argued that they feared kidnapings and other threats once their wealth was known. Despite that order, eight members of the Supreme Court filed their reports. Justice Lewis Powell Jr., who reported his net worth at $1.3 million when he was confirmed in 1971, got a 30-day extension be cause of illness...
...White House staff, says former Speechwriter James Fallows, 29, in the concluding installment of his reflections on "The Passionless Presidency," functions like a "feudal system." He adds: "By choosing stability, harmony and order as his internal goals, by offering few rewards for ingenuity and few penalties for dullness or failure, Jimmy Carter created an Administration in which people were more concerned with holding their jobs than with using them...
...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...
...threatened a mass march on Washington. He was hastily summoned to the White House, where President Roosevelt tried to outtalk him. "He kept cutting in, monopolizing the conversation," complained Randolph, who was not used to such treatment. Randolph refused to budge until an exasperated F.D.R. finally signed an Executive order banning discrimination in defense industries and Government employment...
...insisted on eliminating segregation in the armed forces; otherwise, he warned that blacks would never bear arms again for their country. "I wish you hadn't made that statement," retorted Truman. "I didn't like it at all." But he, too, eventually capitulated and issued an Executive order banning discrimination in the military "as rapidly as possible...