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...through. Says Reagan: "I'm calling to ask if you can serve your country as Assistant Secretary of HHS for health." The conversation is a formality; the appointee has already been primed. A few minutes later, near Helene von Damm's desk in the anteroom, Personnel Director Pendleton James is wondering aloud why Reagan did not immediately make one other similar call...
...Pendleton James is occupying the other easy chair by the fire, and the subject is personnel. Jim Cavanaugh, who has been assisting James temporarily, is returning to his home in California. Since coming to Washington, Reagan has been complaining about the cold and joking about defecting. "Wait until I get my hat," he tells Cavanaugh. "I'll go with...
...massive bureaucracy from the clutches of hostile (Carter) forces posed both political and logistical problems. For every department, agency and office an analogous transition team arose to pinpoint key issues for the incoming administration to tackle, and personnel to be discarded or retained. For three months, personnel director E. Pendleton James played keeper of the Book of Lists (and boxes of resumes), while a Council of Elders held intermittent Judgment Day caucuses. The result: a tiny trickle of cabinet appointments, announced by a press spokesman rather than the president-elect himself, in stark contrast to Richard M. Nixon...
...wealthy entrepreneur had made a fortune in the electronics businesses of Northern California's "Silicon Valley." In his mid-40s, possessing a proven record of management, he seemed the very model of a Reagan top appointee. As he sat in the drab Washington office of E. Pendleton James, the President-elect's personnel director, visions of the sub-Cabinet danced in his head...