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...accompanied by Vance; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; General George Seignicus, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and four Georgians from the White House: Hamilton Jordan, Frank Moore, Jody Powell and Gerald Rafshoon. All of them carried under their arms black, 3-in.-thick briefing books, stamped in gold with the presidential seal and the legend: PRESIDENT CARTER'S MEETING WITH SOVIET PRESIDENT BREZHNEV...
...American people" spread alarm far beyond the targeted oil companies. Says Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont: "I regret that the President seems to have been taken in by the argument that the oil industry should be made a public villain. I have to speculate that [Media Adviser] Gerald Rafshoon told him there are votes in doing...
...sense of press irresponsibility persists. You can hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...Rafshoon complains about the "minute and 45 seconds" treatment of any issue on nightly TV newscasts, usually dramatized by some head-to-head conflict. Rafshoon scorn fully dismisses these as "process stories," not really what's going...
...Rafshoon" has become a Washington verb for image gilding; yet, it is hard to quarrel with an Administration attempt to get its act together and speak with one voice. Carter's problem has been more acute than most, since he for so long naively or generously let people like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and now deposed White House Aide Midge Costanza pop off at will...