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...leave; New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once a bitter Nixon critic, is rumored to be a possible successor. George Romney has announced his imminent departure as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant Secretary Samuel Jackson, a black, might give blacks more hope for racially enlightened housing policies; Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, has been mentioned too. Also expected to leave, although there has been little talk of who might replace them, are Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Secretary John Volpe...
...press briefing marking the first anniversary of President Nixon's New Economic Policy, Donald Rumsfeld, the Cost of Living Council director, paid tribute to an unsung hero of wage-price control, a man "who without question has contributed as much to the design and development and establishment of Phase II as any human being" -one Marvin Kosters...
...jump. On his recommendation, the COLC put under controls small and medium-sized lumber mills, which had been exempted. Kosters claims that in some cases they were buying lumber from big mills at controlled prices and selling it on the open market for much more. Last month Kosters convinced Rumsfeld that requests by automakers for price boosts on 1973 cars should be resisted. He argued that Detroit could make fat profits through increased sales even without price boosts. The Price Commission rejected General Motors' and Ford's increases (TIME, Sept...
...cherishes his image as a nonpartisan price controller, professed surprise at the blatantly political use of his pronouncements. Yet the attempt to capitalize on his auto-price ruling was predictable. Last month chiefs of the four U.S. automakers were summoned to the White House and asked by Donald Rumsfeld, director of Nixon's Cost of Living Council, to withdraw requests for price increases on 1973 models that ranged upward from $85 per car or truck. G.M. eventually agreed to reduce its increase to $54 per vehicle and Ford came down to $59. Then, last week Grayson announced that...
...White House initially bypass the Government's formal economic control mechanisms and jawbone against auto boosts that were not likely to get through the Price Commission anyway? Quite possibly, aides wanted Nixon rather than Grayson to get credit for stopping the rise. Indeed, TIME learned last week that Rumsfeld never asked Grayson what the commission was likely to do, and did not even tell the price czar about the jawboning until after it had begun...