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Most remarkably, the new nominees will bring to 36 the number of people occupying the eleven Cabinet jobs since January 1969-and that figure does not include the repeat performances of Elliot Richardson, George Shultz and Rogers Morton. The most stable departments have been State (William Rogers, Henry Kissinger) and Agriculture (Clifford Hardin, Earl Butz). All other departments have had from three to six Secretaries...
COMMERCE, five-Maurice Stans, Peter Peterson, Frederick Dent, Morton, Richardson (nominated...
INTERIOR, four-Walter Hickel, Morton, Stanley Hathaway, Thomas Kleppe...
...office in London, Richardson stopped editing some proofs for a book on the responsiveness of government to the people that he hopes will be published this spring and took the ten-minute call. Ford ran through his list of proposed changes and said that Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton wanted to leave his job at year's end. Would Richardson be interested in that position? Another interim possibility was offered. (Richardson has not said what it was, but Administration sources suggested that he recently was sounded out for the CIA post.) Ford wanted Richardson to return to offset any distress among...
...from the White House asked him to rush his letter over earlier than planned?by 10:30 a.m. The surprising Rockefeller withdrawal was immediately announced to reporters. By the time Ford went on TV at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T., the only real news was the substitution of Richardson for Morton...