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Correspondents Eileen Shields and Douglas Brew helped to piece the story together with interviews of some of the incoming and outgoing members of the Carter Cabinet. Ogden spoke with Hamilton Jordan, the new White House Chief of Staff, and other top aides. The whole experience reminded him oddly of the Kremlin shake-ups he had reported from the Soviet Union. Observed Ogden: "In Moscow, when we would analyze changes in the Politburo membership, it invariably appeared that dissidents had been dropped and team players installed. That's exactly how it looked in Washington last week...
...thought that by acting quickly and swiftly dismissing the officials who displeased him, he could project a decisive, take-charge image. Said Hamilton Jordan: "He felt it was better to do it without hesitation so there would not be a cloud of uncertainty and apprehension over some departments for weeks and weeks." Instead, the President's unprecedented purge, and the degree of political motivation that seemed to be involved, raised still more questions about his own leadership instincts...
Tensions had been building between the two men almost from the moment that Hamilton stepped into Geneen's job as day-to-day operational boss of the company. Reluctant to relinquish power, Geneen in 1975 had been given a two-year exemption from the company's policy of mandatory retirement at 65, but when he finally did step down, ostensibly to confine himself to his more general policy-making duties as board chairman, he pestered the new chief with critical memos, maneuvered to circumvent Hamilton's corporate decision making and sometimes even insulted him to his face...
...company stands to see a lot more of Geneen, at least until his $1 million-a-year management contract expires in 1981 and he presumably retires for good at 71. No sooner had he dumped Hamilton than he was jetting to Europe where, in the words of one ITT executive, "more heads are expected to roll." Sure enough, at week's end Gerhard Andlinger, president of ITT Europe, "resigned...
...covered battlements. Lord Cobham, a disaffected official who left Robert Walpole's government in 1733, determined to make an allegorical statement in his garden and persuaded his architect to build a ruined Temple of Modern Virtue amidst his flower beds. During the mid-18th century, another landowner, Charles Hamilton, tried to turn his estate into a scene from a painting: he hired an aged man to inhabit his fake hermitage. (The would-be recluse resigned after three weeks...