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Every White House staff reflects its President's style, whims and, most important, use of power. No sooner had Gerald Ford been sworn in than he began to dismantle the tightly hierarchical system erected by Richard Nixon. Ford is designing his presidency like a wheel, with the Oval Office at the hub and spokes radiating out in all directions. The new President intends to be in the middle of the action...
When Ford became Vice President, he named Hartmann his chief of staff. But Hartmann proved to be a poor administrator, and after Ford was sworn in as President he made a point of retaining General Alexander M. Haig Jr. as White House chief of staff. Hartmann nonetheless remains the President's most influential and most nearly indispensable adviser. To master the grueling White House pace, he has given up cigarettes, coffee and martinis and dropped, at least temporarily, his hobby of snorkeling and taking underwater photographs near his vacation home in St. Croix. He still swims daily...
...departure of Nixon was, above all, an extraordinary triumph of the American system. The nation is not wrong to permit itself some self-congratulation on that. Just after he had sworn in the new President, Chief Justice Warren Burger grabbed the hand of Senator Hugh Scott, the Government colleague nearest to him. "Hugh," said Burger, "it worked. Thank God, it worked." He meant the system...
Once he was sworn in as Vice President, Ford hit the road as a traveling salesman for the presidency and the Republican Party. In his first eight months in office, he flew more than 100,000 miles and made over 500 appearances before groups ranging from a large G.O.P. rally in Chicago to the Boy Scouts. The aim of this energetic odyssey was to rally the party faithful in a time of troubles and give them a glimpse of a new and accessible party leader...
...last week in a criminal information filed in federal court by the special prosecutor. Sherman is charged with the misdemeanor of accepting illegal funds from the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. to pay for computerized mailing lists. And Humphrey's onetime campaign manager, Jack Chestnut, was accused in a sworn statement by another Humphrey aide of sending $12,000 in campaign bills to the milk coop, which then paid them...