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...might come in a few minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries can scoot. "Nobody," says a staffer, "can polish a desk clean...
...list of names for federal job appointments-on which the President can base a decision. "Whatever I have to do," explained the President at his press conference, "he has in some measure to do." Adams must also settle disputes among top-level officials. "The Governor," says a White House staffer, "is the only man around here with stature enough to say no and make it stick. Every time I say no to a Senator, he says the hell with it and goes to Adams. When Adams says no, it does not get appealed...
...liked the principle of the Kennedy amendment, but was leaving it up to the Senate to decide whether to tack it on to the foreign aid bill or defer it for later action. Was he sure that this was where he wanted to stand? asked a White House staffer. Barked Ike: "Now look, I've told you three times-that...
Longevity may be partly to blame. Of the Globe's 1,500 employees, 398 have been with the paper for more than 25 years, 30 for more than 50. Globe Editor Larry Winship has fired only one editorial staffer* in 44 years. Whatever the cause, says one managing editor, "we have too many 9-to-5 reporters. For every five people on your staff, you have one newspaperman. The others are hanging on his back...
...Similarly, White House visitors find themselves kept after their allotted time by a President eager to talk about national problems and issues. In fact, the President has thrown his own hours-minutes-seconds schedule off the track to the point that Appointments Secretary Tom Stephens, as one White House staffer puts it, has "chewed his nails down to the knuckles...