Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watson's staff prepared inch-thick option papers on such issues as national health insurance, tax reform, the FBI. Watson wanted true options, not advocacy papers. A man to whom the shadings of language are terribly important, he often bounced back reports with blunt notations like: "This is an unsupported essay. Start over...
While some members of his staff grumbled that campaign money was far too scarce to divert $150,000 into a transition that might never take place, Carter simply told Watson to keep plowing ahead. Working 18-hour days behind his glass desk in Atlanta, Watson had personally interviewed and selected a team of 18 coordinators, most of them in their 30s, to collect the best ideas and judgments they could from top persons around the country. Watson visited with hundreds of top sources: former Cabinet officers, White House staffers, heads of the country's large foundations...
...State Department volume, for example, contains contingency plans for Yugoslavia, discussions about opening a dialogue with Viet Nam, budget reviews. It reaffirms the need for a strong Secretary who is capable of "withstanding pressures from the munitions industry" and recommends that the national security adviser be confined to staff responsibilities, not policymaking...
...appointments there will be candidates proposed who are described and evaluated by at least four peers. When Watson asked in another memo how much Carter intended to be involved in the selection of the next 200 positions, the candidate answered fully in the margin: "A lot." Watson's staff has put together a talent bank of 7,000 names from which to draw. Ambassadorial and even Supreme Court candidates will be presented to Carter...
...from being a mere appendage to the winning ticket, Walter Frederick Mondale turned out to be a considerable asset. With unflagging energy and unfailing good humor-even when his staff steered him to factory gates after shifts had changed-Mondale effectively worked the northern tier of the U.S. His assignment was to build bridges between Jimmy Carter and the sizable Democratic blocs that did not know the Georgian well: ethnics, labor, liberals...