Word: selections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each year the Dean of College sent out letters telling House committees how to select CRR student members, and each year few Houses even considered cooperating...
...None. I've deliberately avoided that. I'm not being coy about it. There are about 75 people whom I will select personally, and among those 75 positions I have not identified any person to sit in a particular position. There are, obviously, people around the country whom I would consider very seriously asking to come into the Government. Governors or mayors or perhaps a few members of Congress or per-haps leaders in different professions...
When that is all done, those who select the next President will turn to the most private corners of their own lives, where they will fit their traditions and family histories and interests with what they have learned. Right then they will be a long distance from the prying eyes of the pollsters and the people at the top. That, of course, is what makes Ford and Carter so nervous-and the American democratic process so eternally fascinating...
Carter would select his White House aides primarily from his campaign staffers. They are predominantly people of considerable administrative and political ability but with little or no experience in national affairs. Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan, 32, was Carter's executive secretary as Governor, and may be headed for a similar job at the White House. Jody Powell, 33, would probably continue as press secretary. Administrative Assistant Greg Schneiders, 29, a restaurateur who began as Carter's baggage handler a year ago and quickly became a trusted adviser, has been mentioned by insiders as a possible appointments secretary...
...purpose is "to make the students tolerant and sensitive, to teach them that their education should not interfere with their learning and to help them see when people are talking rot." John Jay Iselin, 42, president of Manhattan's Educational Broadcasting Corp., saw as his role "to select pertinent information and to put it out in a way that can be understood" by expert and layman alike...