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Grossly Exaggerated. Critics lost no time in noting that Carter's initial appointees were all white, Establishment-connected males and that the first three Cabinet choices represented Yale (Vance), Princeton (Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury) and Harvard (Brock Adams, Secretary of Transportation). The President-elect moved to remedy this by naming Atlanta Congressman Andrew Young his Ambassador to the United Nations. The first prominent black to throw his weighty influence behind the Carter candidacy, Young candidly admitted that his friends had "been cussing me out and crying" over his decision to accept the post−one that does...
...creating the office of Secretary of Transportation had hardly been signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 when a second-term Congressman from Seattle pinpointed the job as his next stop on the turnpike of his political career. Last week Brock Adams (he never uses the second syllable of his baptismal name Brockman) arrived at this goal when President-elect Carter announced his nomination as Transportation's fifth Secretary...
Among the others summoned by Carter were four possible candidates for Defense Secretary: Caltech President Harold Brown, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
...BROCK ADAMS...
...Senate-Favorite Robert Byrd and Hubert Humphrey -and the retiring leader, Mike Mansfield, plus the influential Edmund Muskie. Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, certain to be House Speaker, was there with four key chairmen: Appropriations' George H. Mahon, Ways and Means' Al Ullman, Budget's Brock Adams and James J. Delaney, probable new Rules head...