Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee staff, moreover, has reconstituted itself into a true investigative unit, with Ribicoffs approval. Proffessional investigators have been borrowed from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and eight to ten staff members have been boning up on every relevant document in the Lance affair. For the first witness, the committee will call Comptroller Heimann. Lance himself is tentatively scheduled to testify the next...
...inner-circle intimates has been demonstrated repeatedly. Harry Truman doggedly defended Major General Harry Vaughan, his military aide, despite the fact that Vaughan had accepted freezers from a perfume company seeking petty favors from the Government. Dwight Eisenhower stood by Sherman Adams, when his chief of staff was accused of similarly accepting gifts, though Adams finally resigned...
While many Presidents have brought home-grown cliques to Washington, Carter's is more narrowly based and larger than most. One count shows 51 Georgians on the White House staff, 18 at the Office of Management and Budget and another 100 scattered throughout the Executive Branch. Observes a Carter campaign associate of the Georgians: "They are a breed unto themselves, close-knit, playing all their cards close to the vest." At week's end, the closest card of all was still being played by Jimmy Carter, who had made no known move to resolve his most pressing personnel...
...George Meany was persuaded to support the treaty after Carter guaranteed job rights for Canal Zone workers. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that rejection of the agreement could lead to bloodshed and the commitment of U.S. troops. General George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned 75 retired generals and admirals to a meeting to drum up support for the treaty. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, about to depart for trade talks in Tokyo, was rerouted to Capitol Hill, where his yarn-spinning charm was put to work on wavering Congressmen...
...White House shortstop argued noisily with the Washington Press Club runner after they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise all-Georgia team...