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Indeed, Simon almost instantaneously has propelled himself into the elite circle of Administration officials -which includes Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary George Shultz-who run vital parts of the Government as virtual baronies under a distracted monarch. Simon's predecessor as energy policy chief, John Love, complained that he could not get Nixon's attention; in five months in office, he was able to see the President alone only four or five times. Self-confident Simon took office proclaiming that he did not need to go running to the White House on every decision...
Another vital change is the substitution of Simon's driving administrative approach for the slow, cautious methods of his predecessor as energy czar, former Colorado Governor John A. Love. On Wall Street, Simon throve as a bond trader who regularly had to make quick decisions on deals involving many millions of dollars, with painful penalties for failure. A long-hours man who regularly lunches at his desk (on enormous delicatessen sandwiches), Simon does not believe in large formal meetings that seek to form a consensus among those attending. He prefers to get information and advice from close aides...
...Yale and Dartmouth and the others, our 2.5 per cent looks pretty good," says George Putnam '49, Harvard's new treasurer. Putnam himself could not be held accountable for the results, no matter how good or bad. All of the past year's financial management was done by his predecessor, George H. Bennett...
...upgrade diplomatic relations between Cairo and Washington. It was a significant move, since the Egyptians acknowledged that the U.S. was still supplying arms and equipment to Israel. Relations between the U.S. and Egypt had been broken off early in the Six-Day War of 1967 by Sadat's predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He charged-wrongly, as it turned out-that planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean had helped Israeli jets attack Egypt at the start of the war. Since then, U.S. interests in Egypt have been represented by Spain, while India took care of Egyptian affairs...
...have freed their country om foreign domination and are developing their society and culture in accordance with their own needs and aspirations. Even more than a tragedy of what is, imperialism is the tragedy of what could be, and in that sense, is no different today from its classical predecessor...