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Brandeis was fond of working early in the morning, Freund said, and he told of one clerk who, after working all night on a legal memo, slipped it under the door of Brandeis's apartment and felt Brandeis receive it. Brandeis was 75 at the time...
...occasion Watson had hand-carried to Plains a black-bound memorandum that dealt with the candidate's favorite subject: Government reorganization. The memo had many recommendations-and questions. About one problem Watson wrote Carter: "We have identified 20 priority targets for organization and have liaison teams to go into the departments after the election. The question is whether the teams should begin before you have appointed the new department Secretary. There is a strong case to be made that we should wait." Carter's answer, scribbled in blue ink in the margin, was crisp and clear...
...Watson's mind, budget preparations and staffing the Government are Carter's two most pressing responsibilities. For each of the 35 top Government appointments there will be candidates proposed who are described and evaluated by at least four peers. When Watson asked in another memo how much Carter intended to be involved in the selection of the next 200 positions, the candidate answered fully in the margin: "A lot." Watson's staff has put together a talent bank of 7,000 names from which to draw. Ambassadorial and even Supreme Court candidates will be presented to Carter...
...action--or inaction--of New York's estimated half million black voters. Moynihan's political problem with blacks stems from his study of the black family in which he alleged that a "pathological" matriarchal structure was in part responsible for blacks' inferior socio-economic status, and from a memo to former president Richard M. Nixon suggesting that the Administration cool the volatile political climbate by adopting a policy of "benign neglect" on racial and urban matters. Although Moynihan has said repeatedly that the "benign neglect" remark was quoted out of context, and that his purpose in the black family study...
Steiner's suggested message to applicants would warn them that "in most cases" misrepresentations are discovered. Such inaccuracies would be passed on to "such other universities and testing services as are appropriate," the memo said...