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...upset Vance quite a bit. The normally imperturbable Secretary was badly shaken by the decision, especially when he learned that Strauss had insisted he report directly to the President. Strauss, before he accepted the job, presented Carter with a long memo of understanding, declaring that he would not work directly for Vance or Brzezinski. Carter was startled. He told intimates that it was the first time he had ever received written conditions about an assignment from the man who was about to get it. He went along with Strauss's terms but turned over to Hamilton Jordan the delicate...
...Rosalynn's role as a political adviser is only now becoming clearer. She and she alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell in his April memo deeply affected her, and she expressed her concern to her husband. Said one top aide: "She sensed that something had to be done before he did, and that had a huge impact on his thinking." So she launched with the President a personal study of American attitudes and malaise, reading...
...Jimmy Carter prepared to take office in 1977, he received a memo from Pollster Patrick Caddell advising him to keep on emphasizing the open, anti-Washington style that had helped him win the election. In this way, the pollster said, Carter could turn his narrow victory margin into a broader mandate. The memo soon became known as Caddell's "style over substance" pitch. Somehow, Carter forgot that advice. But last month, when he began trying to rescue his presidency, he turned again to Caddell for counsel, and this time he followed...
Caddell wrote a virtual blueprint for Carter's Camp David summit. In fact, Caddell had been trying to persuade Carter to refurbish his presidency since April, when he sent the President a now famous lengthy memo describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell...
...Hamilton Jordan, 34, wrote a shrewd, sensitive 72-page memo sketching out in brilliant detail in 1972 the course Candidate Jimmy Carter had to follow from Plains, Ga., to the White House. Carter seldom wavered from Jordan's plans. Ever since, Jordan has been the President's top political strategist, and this month was officially named White House Chief of Staff?even though critics claim Jordan embodied some of the Administration's most serious managerial flaws. Jordan has a swift, conceptual mind, reads political moods and trends skillfully, and although he is personally disorganized is highly imaginative. Jordan looks...