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...Shields and Douglas Brew helped to piece the story together with interviews of some of the incoming and outgoing members of the Carter Cabinet. Ogden spoke with Hamilton Jordan, the new White House Chief of Staff, and other top aides. The whole experience reminded him oddly of the Kremlin shake-ups he had reported from the Soviet Union. Observed Ogden: "In Moscow, when we would analyze changes in the Politburo membership, it invariably appeared that dissidents had been dropped and team players installed. That's exactly how it looked in Washington last week...
Civiletti is also known as a man with neither political ambition nor a political following−and his loyalty to both Jimmy Carter and Griffin Bell, the man he will succeed, is unquestioned. Although the Civiletti appointment signals no shake-up at Justice, it may mean that criminal prosecutions will move more swiftly than under the easygoing Bell. Said Civiletti last week: "There is nothing more harmful to justice or the perception of justice than delay, red tape, unpreparedness." Civiletti is seeking ways to form task forces from the various divisions of the department (such as criminal, tax and antitrust...
Coming on top of the energy speech, the Cabinet shake-up stunned commentators and ordinary citizens abroad. Disappointed with U.S. inaction on energy, European political leaders generally were happy to see Energy Secretary James Schlesinger go. They cheered the firing of Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who has never lived down his brief willingness a year ago to allow the dollar to fall to its lowest levels ever. They applauded his replacement by G. William Miller, who as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board showed a tough-minded determination to protect the dollar by tightening up on money policy, even...
...Sudden shake...
...future that appeared to be bright and secure. Yet the affable, mild-mannered president and chief executive officer of ITT had just returned from a three-week swing through the Pacific last week when, with stunning swiftness, the board fired him. The year's most astonishing management shake-up showed just how little job security there...