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...accounts, Jimmy Carter knew there would be some hot reaction to his nomination of an old Georgia chum and political confidant, former Federal Judge Griffin Bell, as Attorney General. The transition team at the Justice Department had sent a memo to Plains warning of a storm of protests. They were right-and the storm went beyond black leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination...
...memo, Hughes glimpsed that his mind was not functioning properly. "Bob, I have only three really serious problems that might prevent an activation of the mining properties, the new hotels, the automobile race track, and even a few more Nevada projects. These three are: 1. The new Showboat [a rival Las Vegas casino]. 2. The race track legislation which
Calamaro said he was unsure if Carter even knew of the reorganization proposal, which Allison submitted in memo form to Jack H. Watson, Jr., coordinator of the transition...
Thomson sent a memo to the fellows on Nov. 19, saying that he was "struck, though not entirely surprised, by the intensity and unanimity of the committee's reaction" to the possible invitation to visit Saudi Arabia...
...addition to the committee's feeling that the Nieman year was "already very short," the memo said that foreign travel is "physically and psychologically disruptive...