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Whether that will satisfy the Administration remains to be seen. Cost of Living Council Director Donald Rumsfeld, who managed the White House side of the confrontation, had pronounced himself "encouraged" by G.M.'s offer. But he had also pointedly added that he hoped that Ford would withdraw its proposed price increases entirely. The Government also began applying delaying tactics. The Price Commission has scheduled public hearings on car prices Sept. 12, at which it will hear such industry critics as Ralph Nader and United Automobile Workers President Leonard Woodcock. By the time the Commission finishes sifting the testimony, Rumsfeld...
...idea of supplementing formal price controls with White House jawboning came from Rumsfeld. Like other Administration officials, he worries that the public still does not believe that inflation is being defeated, even though the rate of price increases is coming down (see following story). The President is known to share this concern, and apparently thinks that he needs some spectacular victory over inflation to talk about in the campaign. At any rate, he gave Rumsfeld the go-ahead to set up meetings in the White House with chiefs of the auto companies. They were invited by telegram to discuss...
...biggest change came last week, when the Cost of Living Council exempted from controls some 5,000,000 companies that have 60 or fewer employees each (small companies in the inflation-ridden fields of health care and construction are still controlled). COLC Director Donald Rumsfeld said: "It appears to us that competition will exert pay and price control on these small businesses...
...blunder that has haunted Anderson the most involved another marginal story. Shortly before Donald Rumsfeld left the Office of Economic Opportunity to become a Nixon adviser, Anderson obtained blueprints for a lavish renovation of the OEO chief's private office. Assured by his source that the work had been completed, Anderson ran a column accusing Rumsfeld of frittering away tax dollars while the poor languished. Actually, no alteration had been started. Admits Anderson: "I had the poverty czar living in luxury. It was a terrible error-the worst mistake I ever made...
...astounding proposal was being debated, an interim increase of 25% was put into effect last May and was left in force after the Administration's August wage-price freeze. Now it appears that the Postal Service will be exempted from Phase II guidelines. In a press conference, Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, announced that the service need only "certify" the need for increased rates and that no controls should "prevent the full recovery of costs...