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...decision making on Carter's minimum-wage proposal last month, eagerly responded to Carter's call to join the energy-program deliberations. When Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Economics Adviser Charles Schultze wanted to express doubts about part of the plan, they sent a tough memo to Carter. But it was Jordan, disturbed by the mounting dissension over the plan, who actually went to Carter and got him to schedule a broad, top-level discussion...
...chief deputy, Landon Butler, 35, is a key operative for the Georgia cadre and is organized labor's West Wing contact. Another Jordan man is Richard Hutcheson, 25, a former campaign aide, who oversees the paper flow into Carter's In box. Senior staffers send their memos-held to two pages, when possible-to Hutcheson for delivery to Carter. But juniors with ideas they want Carter to consider must send their notes to their own senior staffer first; if he passes a memo, it then goes on to Hutcheson. If he deems it unworthy of a showing...
...done a study of the paper work that comes to Carter. During the week of March 7, for example, 292 items, totaling 1,384 pages-plus a number of "other" things such as lengthy studies and reports-were dealt with personally by the President. When Carter sent a memo to Clough asking why she had the "other" category in her study, she replied that these were things she assumed he either did not read or merely skimmed. "I read most of it," Carter wrote back...
...meeting turns to the Administration's energy policy. The President refers to a lengthy memo on his desk from Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Charles Schultze, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Both have raised serious questions about the proposals being developed by Energy Chief James Schlesinger. They have insisted that they be consulted in advance -and in full-before any final decisions are made. "They treat me like I'm an idiot," Carter says to Jordan. "Do they think I would make a policy without consulting the other members of the Cabinet...
...Well," Jordan says as he excuses himself from the office, "I'm glad my name ain't on that memo." · It is a short time later. The President is alone in the Cabinet Room with three Senators, Democrats John Glenn and Abraham Ribicoff and Republican Charles Percy. They have presented him a report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on the problem of nuclear proliferation. "I know you're working right in the middle of this now," Glenn tells the President, "and I think it's very important." Carter notes that...