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...advisory position in the Carter administration. Tacit in virtually all Harvard-Carter advisors' statements concerning their own futures with Carter is the understanding that Carter seems to want to remain without strings at least for now. If he really is beholden to no one, he would in all probability select his closest advisors from the ranks of those from whose help he has profited most during the campaign...
Kelley's problem is compounded by his handling of more serious allegations of wrongdoing within the FBI. When the House Select Committee on Intelligence last year aired charges that FBI officials may have accepted kickbacks in the purchase of electronic equipment, Kelley's in-house investigation produced a wishy-washy report claiming that only bad judgment had been involved. Attorney General Levi ordered a new investigation, which apparently is on the verge of indictments...
...VICE PRESIDENCY. Reagan's selection of liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker had failed to shake loose many pro-Ford delegates in the less conservative delegations, but it had raised the Veep issue as an emotional battleground. Reagan's bold manager Sears pushed for a rule which would force Ford to name his running mate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the presidential balloting. Some Ford delegates were eager to have the President put all his cards on the table too. Delegation leaders in the Northeast and pro-Ford delegates from Maine sought assurances in particular that Ford...
...last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House for a chat. Then he sat back and listened as about 40 of them vented their views on whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against Carter. Ford listened and smiled. One man present, an old college friend of Ford's from the Big Ten, recalled the words of Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes: "Three yards and a cloud of dust-the way to win football games...
that in the case of an appointment for a period of two years or longer, Harvard University, at its own discretion, will select such a person and so notify the Prime Minister of Australia of the name of the person it intends to appoint to the Chair in Australian Studies...