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...aides, who are deeply concerned about inflation. White House political advisers are primarily worried about the danger of recession, and they pressed for stimulative measures to head it off and help the people who would be most hurt. Arguing for this were Donald Rumsfeld, new staff coordinator, and Robert Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor. They were joined by Economist Paul McCracken, who as Nixon's first chairman of the CEA, helped formulate the original "game plan" strategy of combatting inflation with budget and monetary restraints; that policy slowed the economy but did not do enough to brake prices...
...Embassy Row one night last week, the conversation flowed as easily as the vintage French wine. The guests, all elegantly dressed, were a sprinkling of the capital's elite: the envoys and finance ministers of half a dozen nations, American and British financiers and top White House Aides Robert Hartmann and Philip Buchen. The host, the modern equivalent of a Levantine legate, was Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's Ambassador to the U.S. There was pearl-sized gray caviar from the Caspian, of course. But the most remarked-upon item was the menu itself: it was lavishly printed on oversize imitation American...
...several close advisers went over the final legal details of the pardon. He was still not completely sure that he would grant it, but, says one participant, "his mind was 95% made up." After that meeting, two old friends stayed behind with Ford. They were Buchen and Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose long association with the President enables him to capture Ford's style and inner thoughts in speeches. Ford talked out his reasons and his beliefs, and the two men went off to put them into a brief personal statement. Hartmann finished it overnight...
...Joining Hartmann in the Oval Office, Ford twice read the speech aloud, wrote in a few changes to make it flow more easily, and added the line referring to Nixon's health. Then he moved to a small adjoining office and began phoning congressional leaders; he had not previously informed them?or Jaworski ?of the highly secret decision to pardon...
While these major changes lie in the future, Ford has already relaxed the mood of the White House and quietly put a number of his closest advisers on his staff. Jerry terHorst, 52, the former political reporter for the Detroit News, is performing capably as Press Secretary. Robert Hartmann, 57, Ford's long time close aide, is ensconced in Rose Mary Woods' old office. Philip Buchen, 58, the President's early law partner back home in Grand Rapids, is White House Counsel. John Marsh, 48, who was serving as a Democratic Congressman from Virginia when...