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...President had decided by late Thursday afternoon that he would act on Friday night if the miners and operators had not reached a solution. He had instructed Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to prepare a plan of action. Eizenstat recommended that Carter invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, imposing an 80-day back-to-work injunction on the miners, and request congressional authorization to seize the coal mines...
...Stuart Eizenstat, executive director of the Domestic Council. The only member of this inner circle without an economics background, he is "the keeper of the campaign promises," as another member described him, constantly reminding colleagues of the positions that Carter took before election. Eizenstat rarely raises his voice during discussions of where business is heading, but he injects a strong liberal viewpoint when talk turns to issues like the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill, which the President promised last week to support...
...Atlanta that his resignation, while not necessarily imminent, was inevitable. One well-placed Atlanta businessman, who is close to both Lance and Carter, told friends that Lance has offered to resign twice, but that Carter talked him out of it both times. Another Georgian quoted Presidential Aide Stu Eizenstat as saying a couple of weeks ago, "It's quite obvious Bert won't survive all this...
...pros and cons: the bill, he said, would create as many as 18,000 jobs at sea and in shipyards and reduce the nation's trade deficit, but in the long run, by raising costs, would reduce both total employment and national production. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat noted that not only Blumenthal but CEA Chairman Charles Schultze and Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper "feel that no version of cargo preference is acceptable," but added that "rejection of cargo preference will be seen as a broken promise...
...could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a staffer. Carter's top domestic-programs man, Stuart Eizenstat, sees the Carter contribution shaping up roughly in the Democratic progressive tradition-but with important differences. Carter's Keynesian economics is tinged with his rural reluctance to spend a buck. His compassionate populism is tempered by his suspicions of mindless Government intrusion. We are in a transition period, claims...