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...there are others: James Fallows, 28, was the editor of the Washington Monthly at $20,000 before he was appointed Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...
...that contains an arsenal of economic brainpower. No fewer than five Ph.D.s in economics hold Cabinet-level posts. The President himself, as an ex-engineer and farmer-businessman, is comfortable with the charts and graphs that are the raw material of economic policymaking. Says one Council of Economic Advisers staffer: "Unlike so many lawyers in government, the President is used to thinking in numbers...
Instead, says one CEA staffer, "the only guy making economic policy is Carter, for good or ill. He is reluctant to delegate authority and judges every issue on the merits of the case presented to him." And the President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn...
...Miami area created a new congressional opportunity. Pepper ran and won, becoming a freshman Congressman at the tender age of 62. In his 15 years in the House, Pepper has missed few floor votes. He has continued, on balance, to support social action programs. As MIMS a staffer explains, "He still believes, as he did during the New Deal, that the Government can correct injustices and right wrongs...
...found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained $5,000 from the Federal Government to begin to meet the needs of the majority of some 2,500 townspeople 65 and older. He fought successfully for the ouster of a town manager who opposed the hiring of a staffer for the council. Now local government puts up $17,000 a year from which the Council on Aging pays a full-time coordinator and helps finance such services as "Meals on Wheels...