Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Yet there are signs that, as he looks forward to 1972, the President will hew to the idea that what is good for national reconciliation will be good for his reelection. He has already begun the realignment of the men who can make his presidency or break it.
≫ Donald Rumsfeld, director of his embattled Office of Economic Opportunity, will become a White House Counsellor. The OEO job will be taken over by one of Rumsfeld's deputies. Frank Carlucci, who was in the State Department before joining the OEO.
≫ Bryce Harlow is leaving the White House staff to return to private industry. He served as the President's liaison man with Congress, a sometimes thankless job in which his quick, self-deprecating wit served him well, but not well enough to ward off the criticism of some...
≫ George Bush, a Nixon favorite who lost a Senate race in Texas, will join the Administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The new U.S. spokesman, who compiled a conservative-to-moderate record in the House of Representatives, has no record at all in diplomatic affairs. In the...
REVENUE SHARING. Nixon told six Governors last week that the placing of larger shares of federal tax revenues in the hands of Governors and mayors will be "the centerpiece" of his program. The White House staff is already working on a repackaging of old and new programs to make it...