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Carter's first victim was Califano, who was called to the Oval Office Wednesday evening. The President's Georgia Mafia gave Califano good marks for administering HEW, but accused him of being a big-spending liberal, a "slick operator" and "not a team player." Said a Carter aide: "Competence alone is not enough. There has to be loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also...
Miller is a team player, and that may explain why he accepted the President's offer to become Treasury Secretary after two other candidates had turned down the job. (Another theory is that he has political ambitions.) It may also explain why he helped the Administration get the natural gas compromise bill through Congress last year−raising questions as to whether the chairman of the Fed should be getting into any subject as controversial as gas decontrol. But earlier this year, when the Administration tried to pressure him into raising interest rates, Miller flatly refused. Such high rates...
After his appointment as Energy Secretary last week, Duncan, a proven team player and a warm but not close friend of the President's, declared: "The task ahead of me is clear, to implement an energy program that will accomplish the objectives set forth by the President." A vital part of that program, he added, is nuclear energy, which "is now playing and will continue to play a very substantial role...
...arrival of Bill Miller in the elegant third-floor corner office of the Treasury Building will lead to some changes in style. He is the kind of "team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates...
There followed nine years as a player in the minors: tank towns, bus rides, bad food, but he was young and playing ball and that was all that mattered. Red Schoendienst was the resident second baseman for the Cards in those days, and no minor leaguer was about to dislodge him. The closest Weaver came was a single spring training on the big league roster before being sent down again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back...