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This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...
...Moon Landrieu, 49, mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to '78, and now a real estate executive, to replace Patricia Harris, the newly nominated Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, in her previous post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
Donovan was relaxing in his swimming pool at New York City's suburban Sands Point when a telephone call from Jimmy Carter caused him to amend his portfolio. Donovan's new post: Senior Adviser at the White House, charged with providing "substantive advice on the full range of matters before the President...
...native Minnesotan, Donovan was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer...
...Congressman Andrew Young was made U.N. ambassador by President Carter, who also named two others from the 200 to his original Cabinet: former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus Interior Secretary and Joseph Califano HEW Secretary, a job he was fired from on July 19. Nancy Teeters moved up from her post as an economist for the Federal Reserve to a place on its governing board, and Barbara Newell has been nominated to be Under Secretary of HEW. Last week Carter tapped former Mayor Moon Landrieu of New Orleans to be HUD Secretary and Mayor Neil Goldschmidt of Portland...