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...alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell in his April memo deeply affected her, and she expressed her concern to her husband. Said one top aide: "She sensed that something had to be done before he did, and that had a huge impact on his thinking." So she launched with the President a personal study of American attitudes and malaise, reading sociology and philosophy books, holding dinner-table discussions with small groups of thinkers...
...least three people turned down the top Fed job: David Rockefeller of the Chase Manhattan Bank, A.W. Clausen of Bank of America and Robert Roosa of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. investment bankers. The final choice came down to Volcker and Bruce MacLaury, president of Brookings. When Carter phoned Volcker last Tuesday, the banker's main concern was to make sure that he and the President agreed on the independent role of the Federal Reserve. "I am satisfied on the basis of my conversations with the President that he has a good understanding of the problems," Volcker said later...
Presidential aides in Washington said that Carter had been repeatedly told at Camp David that he needed someone of stature at the White House who had close contacts in top intellectual, political, diplomatic and financial circles. Donovan, who has known Carter since he was Governor of Georgia, was suggested for such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...
...Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He began his 34-year career at Time as a writer for FORTUNE, and, at 38, he became its managing editor. TIME Co-Founder Henry Luce selected him as his top deputy in 1959, and Donovan succeeded Luce as editor-in-chief when Luce gave up the position in 1964. In recent years he has interviewed virtually every major head of state...
...judgment was unfair, in one sense. The problem of leadership in the U.S. goes far beyond the Oval Office, stultifying progress at every level of American society. But Carter was the man at the top, where he had so desperately wanted to be, and Americans were blaming him now for the exhaustion of oilfields, the greed of Arabs and their own insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely...