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Besides Jordan, there are five other holdovers from Carter's days in Georgia who are members of the senior staff -spokes in Jimmy's wheel-and have ready access to the President. Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, is probably in touch with Carter more frequently than anyone else, including Jordan. As one colleague describes the emerging West Wing pecking order: "There's Hamilton and Jody, and then there are the others." Powell was one of the eight aides and Cabinet members Carter called in last week to discuss whether he should drop the $50 rebate...
Robert Lipshutz, 55, the Counsel to the President, remains Carter's senior aide (the average age of the other top assistants is 37), and he presides over the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting. But his influence on policy has not broadened beyond relatively narrow legal areas, such as deciding the conflict-of-interest problems for Carter's appointees and advising the commutation of G. Gordon Liddy's Watergate sentence. A rapidly rising member of the Carter staff is Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart E. Eizenstat, 34. Although quiet and self-effacing, he has gained the respect...
...Rochester. She is the group's only female, the only ethnic and the only non-Georgian. One White House watcher wisecracks: "They had hoped she might be handicapped too." Costanza's job: to deal, as she says, with "organized America," meaning special-interest groups such as senior citizens and gay organizations. Costanza is much more liberal than Carter on most issues, and thus far has not had much impact on policy...
First, it is clear that Trivers, a biologist specializing in evolutionary theory and social behavior, is a hot item. The biologists are worried that unless Harvard offers him a senior position soon, Trivers-whose work has been called fundamental to the development of sociobiology-will go somewhere else...
Even the Biology Department is spilt on the issue. Although its senior faculty members did propose Trivers for a senior position in vertebrate behavior, they did not back the recommendation unanimously...