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...prickly relationship with the rest of Government. The President appoints and the Senate confirms the chairman and the six other governors of the board, and thereafter neither can give them orders. Burns has boasted that once, when Nixon's Treasury Secretary George Shultz called on him to plead that the Fed pump out more money, Burns angrily ordered Shultz out of his office...
...Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against...
Even if he were not constantly having to drop everything to plead with some legislator over the fate of the energy bill, James Schlesinger would have his big hands full. The job of shaping up his seven-month-old Department of Energy is turning out to be just about as tough as moving President Carter's energy bill through Congress. Though DOE was set up to bring order, drive and direction to the uncoordinated activities of the 50 federal agencies involved in energy matters, Secretary Schlesinger's superagency has been sinking into a bureaucratic stupor...
...gave up a $500,000 annual income as an influential Washington lawyer ?an insider among insiders?to plead the cause of the poor and downtrodden in Washington's most frustrating Cabinet post, at a salary of $66,000. Yet he enjoys his official chauffeur-driven car, insists on flying cross-country first class, lives in a $182,000 house. And when he watches the Washington Redskins, he sits in the box beside Owner Edward Bennett Williams...
...judge delayed sentencing until June 12 and ordered new psychiatric tests. Both legal and medical experts were left to ponder a fresh set of problems in the case. Among them: If Berkowitz was so deranged last week, had he been competent to plead guilty two weeks earlier? Another question: What had he meant last month when a court-appointed psychiatrist asked what he planned to do at the sentencing? "I know, but I'm not telling," he had replied. It sounded, thought some, as if he were planning his outrageous performance. "This will be the third psychiatric report," complained...