Word: rumsfeld
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...Image. When the shifts have been made, the White House staff is expected to perform more efficiently under the direction of Donald Rumsfeld, 42, who has not yet succeeded in establishing the authority that was anticipated...
Ford moved to solve his staff problems by instructing all of his aides, who tend to take up too much of his time on less than crucial matters, to report to Donald Rumsfeld, 42, his newly named "coordinator of White House operations." For someone of Ford's democratic disposition, it was a tough order to give, but it had to be done. Observers feared that he was spread too thin, and had not yet made a successful transition from the leisurely politicking of Capitol Hill to the continual decision-making grind of the White House...
Open and personable, Rumsfeld has the task of giving the President the protection he needs without sealing him off. A Ford ally when he served in Congress from Illinois, Rumsfeld was even considered for the vice presidency before Nelson Rockefeller was chosen. Though Rumsfeld held some high-ranking posts in the Nixon Administration-director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, director of the Cost of Living Council, Ambassador to NATO-he was not tarnished by Watergate. Once when...
...Rumsfeld's arrival coincided with the long-overdue departure of some hard-core Nixon holdovers, who were finally eased out last week. Among the resignations announced: Father John McLaughlin, a Jesuit priest who had offended his own order by so tenaciously defending Nixon's morals; Richard Moore, a presidential counsel who is reportedly to be added to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Watergate cover-up trial; Bruce Herschensohn, an assistant who was in charge of coordinating public support for Nixon...
...political operatives than of his economic aides, who are deeply concerned about inflation. White House political advisers are primarily worried about the danger of recession, and they pressed for stimulative measures to head it off and help the people who would be most hurt. Arguing for this were Donald Rumsfeld, new staff coordinator, and Robert Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor. They were joined by Economist Paul McCracken, who as Nixon's first chairman of the CEA, helped formulate the original "game plan" strategy of combatting inflation with budget and monetary restraints; that policy slowed the economy but did not do enough...