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...Budget came up with its own-$3.9 billion -which was also rejected. Furious at the foulups. Carter told Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to whip the policy into shape. Within two months, he and Harris produced a ten-page outline that Carter liked. In a note to "Pat and Stu" the President gave his go-ahead. "My whole family will help," he added...
...President had to fire all but one of us, he probably would keep Stu." That high praise comes from top White House Assistant Hamilton Jordan, and he is speaking of Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat. In a matter of months, Eizensfat has quietly moved into an unrivaled position at the White House that was underscored by his role in shaping Carter's urban policy. Says another high-level aide: "On a day-to-day basis, Stu probably has greater influence on the President on a broader range of issues than anybody...
...advisers to see Carter daily, and sometimes several times a day. Other Administration officials give him high marks for accurately presenting their views on policy to Carter, but Eizenstat usually attaches his own recommendations as well. Says an associate: ''On almost every domestic issue, Stu has the last word." He pushed successfully for keeping a few proposed minor reforms in the Administration's tax cut bill, which is now before Congress. He persuaded Carter to add 415,000 more public service jobs to his economic stimulus package. Now he is trying to speed up work...
Have you already copied this down?" she asks, point ing to the topic headings. A few heads bob yes, several more shake no; the rest of the stu dents merely carry on with their private conversations. The subject of the day is not terrorism, energy or Watergate. Aptly enough, the topic is "The Problems of American Education...
...that American education in the '70s is in deep trouble. And almost by definition, any problem with public education is a big one. No where are the difficulties more acute than in the 25,300 public high schools, junior and senior, in the U.S., which enroll 19 million stu dents and carry a million teachers on their payrolls. To maintain the U.S.'s vast public education establishment, from elementary schools to colleges, taxpayers will spend $144 billion this year ? a 152% increase over the past decade. Those billions add up to more than the country spends for national defense...