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Style will carry a President only so far. The Carter Administration was still marred in some areas by confusion and unprofessionalism; the staff work was sometimes shoddy and key memos poorly prepared. Dozens of top jobs remained unfilled; the Agriculture Department has no deputy secretary, no general counsel and none of its six allotted assistant secretaries. But last week amid a burst of activity, Carter was coming to grips with matters of substance-and with uneven results...
...take their case to Jimmy and he'd give them what they wanted." They learned differently. Producing a balanced budget by fiscal 1981 is one of Carter's main goals over the next four years. Hamilton Jordan, who was emerging as de facto chief of staff of the White House, supplied the political rationale: "If we balance the budget [by then], politically no one can touch Jimmy Carter...
...eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically to cover up the time he spent resting or brooding...
...days there it looked like Jimmy Carter would restore balance. He went to work at the good country hour of 7:30 a.m. and got back home to dinner regularly at 6:30 p.m. He wrote his staff a memo saying that they needed rest and time with their families. Carter even opened up a little spare time in the mornings to think by himself. He went to the opera one Sunday afternoon and returned to Plains on a weekend to stroll along the main street...
Divinity School officials were unavailable for comment yesterday, but Susan Carpenter, staff assistant in the dean of students' office said Guy V. Martin, dean of students at the Divinity School was waiting for formal notification of the complaint before making a statement...