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Carter contended that reports about pressure on him to select one candidate or another have been "grossly exaggerated." Nonetheless, such pressure persisted, for example, in the debate over whether he should choose Caltech President Harold Brown or Schlesinger for the Pentagon...
...Jordan know? No, Jordan didn't either. Carter talked about Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. On the symbolic level she was an outstanding choice, but was she a good manager? He agreed with the suggestion that a select dozen prospects, most of them candidates for Defense and Treasury, come to Atlanta that Tuesday for personal interviews. As Jordan finally prepared to leave, Carter called to him, "I'll phone Fritz tonight and see if he agrees with our list...
Within each priority group, students draw lottery numbers to determine the order by which they can move. Rooming groups select one number as do individuals...
Each state chooses about 15 applicants from whom two are chosen for more intense regional interviews. Each region will select four finalists. Almost a sixth of last year's finalists were Harvard students...
Although Widener and Littauer do not yet have copies of the book, sources say a few privately and well-thumbed copies of this Whole Earth Catalogue of the bureaucracy are circulating among select members of the Faculty...