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...weeks the Administration had seemed becalmed. As the Bert Lance affair dragged on through the dog days of summer, much of the White House's time and energy-too much-was deflected by the latest press accusation or the newest plan to save the beleaguered Budget Director. Now, with October's brisk breezes and brilliant hues, the man in the Oval Office seemed to emerge reinvigorated. Suddenly, Jimmy Carter was in motion again-launching initiatives, planning journeys, defending his programs, attacking their detractors. But motion does not always equal progress, and the President's whirling-dervish routine...
...Republican in my bones, I am unable to chortle at the fall of Bert Lance. Surely he is a decent man who lived within the system until he was exposed to the public eye for infractions few of us would consider twice...
...Bert Lance is proof of the old cliche "with friends like this, who needs enemies?" Wasn't Bert Lance intelligent enough to know what he was doing to his friend President Carter...
...question was not entirely unreasonable. Mondale had begun his tenure as a highly visible, globe-trotting emissary of the new President. But in the past weeks he has virtually dropped out of public sight, most noticeably during the Carter Administration's crisis over Bert Lance...
...hard feelings-at least not in public As Bert Lance strode into the grand ballroom of New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel last week, more than 800 young brokers and bankers burst into prolonged applause. The warm welcome by members of the Investment Association of New York meant mainly that Lance still had friends far from his native Georgia. Partly out of respect for his feisty fight against leaving Washington, but more clearly out of appreciation for the conservative economic views that he had voiced as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, the audience gave Lance three standing...