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...levels of competence and honor that each person controls. Watergate cried out for one bright young man to remember his Boy Scout oath and walk out of the White House. None did. The Carter crew have better hearts and souls. But if there is one duty of a staffer, it is to spot trouble far off and, if necessary, make unpleasant noises to convince the President of the danger. None...
...Administration lacks a forceful Senate champion who could steer the program through the upper chamber as Speaker Tip O'Neill did in the House. Russell Long, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and other powerful Senators have been critical of much of Carter's plan. Says one Senate staffer: "The energy program had a cheerleader in the House. It does not in the Senate...
...Lance ("Bert, I'm proud of you") Carter clearly opened himself to the charge that he was reneging on his pledge to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. "There's no doubt that the President has used up some credit," said one White House staffer last week. "He told the people, 'You should trust Bert Lance,' and I think they'll listen to him-once. But the next time, it won't be so easy...
...there a phrase to capture all of this? Mondale could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a staffer. Carter's top domestic-programs man, Stuart Eizenstat, sees the Carter contribution shaping up roughly in the Democratic progressive tradition-but with important differences. Carter's Keynesian economics is tinged with his rural reluctance to spend a buck. His compassionate populism is tempered by his suspicions of mindless...
...been able to build a legal case against Park or his friends in Congress. Republicans have complained-with some justification-that Democrats are far less eager to look into Koreagate, which chiefly involves Democrats, than they were to pursue Republicans implicated in Watergate. Still, as a House ethics committee staffer explains, "there is no smoking pistol." For one thing, although investigators have called more than 70 witnesses before a grand jury, they have not been able to establish whether Park was a South Korean agent; if he was, he broke U.S. law by not registering with the Justice Department...