Word: staff
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...more about combat than his fellow fantasists. In real life, he is an operations officer at the battle-simulation center at Fort Carson, Colo., home of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. The captain was part of a five-man group flown to Ann Arbor in the personal staff plane of Fort Carson's commanding officer, Major General John Forrest...
...White House staff reflects Carter's lack of success as a Government manager. Hamilton Jordan is the President's senior adviser and is sometimes regarded as chief of staff. In fact, however, no one has that title and function, or even a standing mandate to keep things moving by cracking the whip over his colleagues. Major assignments rotate from office to office, and much is handled on an ad hoc basis. Explains a high Administration official: "The problem is not the decisions we make, but how we make them and how they are made public. Jimmy Carter consults...
...Carter's share of the blame is significant. Though intelligent, he has noteworthy lapses of judgment, especially about people. His intense loyalty to his staff makes him reluctant to fire those who may have served him well in his campaign but have demonstrated limited ability at the national level. (No Administration in recent memory has been so close to the mid-term mark with so few significant personnel changes as Carter's has.) Finally, his deep moralism and evangelistic background at times seem to have persuaded him that it is enough to preach the good word or introduce...
...hunker down in dismal self-pity. It has begun working hard to improve its image and revamp its management techniques. The Administration's capacity for following through on its program proposals has been bolstered by the promotions of Tim Kraft and Anne Wexler to important White House staff positions. Public Relations Expert Jerry Rafshoon has been put to work full time to burnish Carter's image...
There is, in fact, a bit of friction between presidential aides in the West Wing, where Powell and others now admit they have tended to underestimate Mrs. Carter's considerable potential, and the East Wing, where Mrs. Carter's staff would like her to get more attention, and yet, contrarily, overprotects her from the press, which she is quite capable of handling with a Southern combination of firmness and grace. Concedes Powell: "We just haven't done the job we could have in utilizing her. We've been so caught up in other things, we neglected...