Who's Who in the Carter Administration
Who’s Who in the Carter Administration Who’s Really Who at the Top: Powell and Jordan continue to be the most powerful members of the White House staff. Even though Jordan turned down a...
...Administrator for the Near East-Joseph aeeler was director of the AID mission in Pakistan...
...S. Customs Service Commissioner-Robert Chasen was a vice president of Intetnational Telephone and Telegraph and was once an FBI agent...
...Vance and Brzezinski are in modest eclipse, mostly because Carter is his own Secretary of State and Yational Security Advisor, Brown and Califano are the strongest of the Cabinet members...
...General Counsel-Harry McLean was the first assistant attorney general for general legal services in Colorado...
...Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...McKinney’s nomination was vigorously opposed by numerous civil righys, labor, and consumer groups...
...Arthur Upton, a radiation expert, was a Deputy Assistant Secretary for professor of pathology at the State Univer- Education-Peter Relic was superintendent sity of New York at Stony Brook...
...Railway AssociationArthur Lewis...
...He plans to enter private law practice...
...Director of the National Cancer InstituteDr...
...Assbtant to the Commissioner-Fred Clark was assistant secretary for adphistration and management at the Labor Department...
...Administrator of the Rural Development Service-William Nagle was director of economic development for the state of Maryland...
...Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner-Roberta Karmel is the first woman to be named to the commission...
...was a senior economist in the commissioner’s Office of Policy and Planning...
...E. Bartelt was assistant director of the California Department of Food and Aeculture, and head of its Animal Industry Dimion...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Man ower, Reserve Affairs and Installations-iobert Pine was deputy assistant director for national security of the Congressional Budget Office...
...RESIGNATIONS Assistant to the Secretary of HUD for Public Deputy Director of the C1.A-Henry Knoche resigned after 24 years with the CIA for reasons that were not explicitly disclosed...
...Blumenthal, who was expected to rank with them, disappointed the White House with his tax reform proposals...
...He explained that his decision was not motivated by dissatisfaction with the commission but by career considerations...
...DEFENSE Undersecretary of the Army-Walter EaBerge was assistant secretary for defense support of NATO...
...Member-Kent Hansen was a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT...
...cultural Resources Laboratory in San Deputy Inspector General-Charles Ruff, a Antonio, Texas...
...books on labor economics and federal public Deputy Assistant Secretmy of the Occupaassistance programs...
...Director for Congressional Relations-Mark Gordon was a staff member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and has been a program analyst and budget examiner at OMB...
...Tax Legislative Counsel-Daniel Halperin, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, served as deputy tax counsel from tt...
...In 1969 he served as chairman of the Florida legislature’s government organization and efficiency committee...
...Federal Power Commission aakman-Charles Curtis was an attorney with Van Ness, Curtis, Feldman and Sutcliffe, a firm specializing in energy law...
...Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service-L...
...Carter is already running for reelection, and Jordan’s mandate covers a review of all White House actions from the standpoint of the potential political consequences...
...Morris Udall and ran Udall’s 1976 presidential campaign...
...Costanza, Watson and Schneiders continue to have little real power...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman-Robert McKinney, a Naval Academy classmate of Carter’s, was Carter’s 1976 campaign chairman in Indiana...
...In 1970 he ran as a peace candidate for the Senate in Connecticut and in 1968 worked in Eugene McCarthy’s presidential campaign...
...Office of Management and Budget Assistant to the Director-Hubert Harris was vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank in Atlanta...
...Before joining Carter’s transition team last November he was chief administrative officer of the American Association of Univeristy Professors...
...Dean Morgan was vice presiFrank, an expert on the law of the sea, was dent and general manager of the foods director of the Center for Law and Social division of Lever Brothers, policy’s international project...
...He was director of community affairs for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority until he joined the Carter campaign as trip director...
...Education John Ellis, former superintendent Inspector General-momas omi is was a top of schools in Ohioofficial at OMB and the GAO and is highly hector of the Children’s &eau-Blandina regarded bY C&fano, with whom he worked Cardenas was vice president of the Interat Defense...
...National Transportation Safety Board Chairman-James King was a popular member of the White House staff as Carter’s special assistant for personnel...
...General Counsel-Joan Bernstein was an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission...
...He is the husband of Jane Frank, deputy secretary to the Cabinet...
...Federal Communications commission Chairman-Joseph Fogarty left the Federal Maritime Commission in 1976 to become a member of the FCC...
...Ambassador to Sweden-Rodney KennedyMinott was a professor of U. S. history at California State University at Hayward...
...Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations-Alan Wolff served as White House general counsel for trade negotiations since 1973 and was senior attorney for international affairs in the Deuartment of Treasury...
...He is the autlior of books on veterans’ organiza-tiom, California politics, and Hitler...
...He was also once an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy...
...Assistant Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation-Robert Landman was Graciela Olivarez’s deputy state planning officer in New Mexico...
...He served two years in the Peace Corps, where he was responsible for programs in the Near East and South Asia...
...Assistant Administrator for Air and Waste Management-Dave Hawkins was staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...He was previously an assistant secretary of the Air Force for research and development in the Nixon and Ford Administrations...
...42 Environmental Protection Agency Special Assistant to the AdministratorBarbara Bankoff was a senior analyst with the Government Research Corp...
...She was a securities lawyer and partner in the New York firm Rogers and Wells and was recently named to the board of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
...She was also a member of the staff of Rep...
...Civil Aeronautics Board Member-Elizabeth Bailey is the first wom& to serve on the board...
...Director of the Central Administrative Unit-Richard Harden, an efficiency expert, was Carter’s assistant for organization and budget matters, but lost that position under the new plan for reorganizing the White House...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Assisted Housing-Nancy Chisholm has been with HUD since 1970...
...Raynynd Garthoff was a specialist on Soviet affairs for the Army, NATO and the State Department...
...p~$y Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Functions-Patricia Worthy was a lawyer with the Washington firm Dolphin and Stafford...
...He is of schools in Hamilton, Ohio...
...Ambassador to Barbados and GrenadqFrank Ortiz was deputy executive secretary of the State Department...
...Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations-Alonzo McDonald, an Atlanta nai%e, was the director of McKinsey and Co., a management consulting firm...
...As a member of Carter’s transition team, she helped to establish a talent bank for the General Counsel-Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer, was once a member of the Texas House of Representatives...
...Edward Roybaf (D-Cal...
...Ambassador to Sri Lahka-W...
...Federal Maritime Commission Com-ioner-Richad Daschbach was an aide to Senator Russell Long (DLa...
...He is a close friend of House Speaker Tip O’Nea, who apparently has pressured Carter ihto choosing McGarry over candidates for the position...
...Director of the Office of International Tax Affairs-Charles Kingson has been the Treasury Department’s deputy international tax coumel since September 1976...
...Assistant Director for Administration and Finance-Mary Leyland was an executive officer in the office of the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Commissioner-Georgiana Sheldon was acting chairman of the Civil Service Commission until last month...
...David Freeman, an advocate of energy conservation and environmental protection, was Schlesinger’s key aide on the White House energy policy staff...
...He is married to Anne Wexler, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Regional Affairs...
...JUSTICE , STATE Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management-Benjamin Read, a prominent figure in the foreign policy establishment, was president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, executive secretary of the State Department during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Deputy Assistant Secrgtary of State for Inter-American Affairs-Sally Shelton was an aide to Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex...
...Early in 1976 he turned down Carter’s personal invitation to work for him in the primaries.Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination- Alexander Shakow was deputy assistant administrator for program and policy coordination...
...Robert Carswell was Carter’s first choice for the post when it looked like Kenneth &elson would be named Deputy Secretary of the Treasury...
...He was chairman of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Indiana, which is currently under investigation by a House subcommittee for alleged conflicts of interest...
...He is the autlior of numerous economist for that committee...
...He was also a staff member of Energy Action, a public interest energy SOUP...
...He was an engineer and attorney for the TVA for eleven years...
...His critics accused First Federal of “redlining,” the practice of refusing to grant morgages in older, inner-city neighborhoods...
...He was also a staff ant solicitor for minerals id the Division of assistant to the ‘Senate Interior and Insular Energy and Resources...
...H EA LTH , EDUCATION AN D WE LF A R E Administrator of the Health Services Admin- Director of the National Institute of EducaistrationGeorge Lythcott was a professor tion-Patricia Graham was a professor of of pediatrics and associate vice chancellor at education at Harvard, vice president of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Radcliffe College, and dean of the Radcliffe Health Services...
...Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board-Webster Todd, Jr...
...She was head of the economics research department of Bell Laboratories and a professor of economics at New York University and has had no experience in airline regulation...
...p~gously he was cpunsel to the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee...
...Ambassador to Guyana-John Burke has been a Foreign Service officer since 1956 apd deputy chief of mission in Bangkok since 1976...
...HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Assistant to the Secretary for International program development for the Skidmore, Affairs-Tila Maria de Hancock, a native of Owings and Merrill architectural and planChile, was a consultant on international ningfirm...
...Chairman of the U.S...
...He has also been director of Peace Corps operations in Indonesia...
...Rector was staff director and chief counsel LABOR Chairman of the National Commission on Nichols was an economics professor at the Employment and Unemployment Statis- University of Wisconsin and a senior econoticsSar Levitan was director of the Center mist for the Senate Budget Committee...
...He was also a six-year member and one-time chairman of Maine’s Public Utilities Commission...
...Howard wriggins was director of Columbia University’s Southern Asian Institute...
...personnel office...
...Assistant to the President for ReorganizationRichard Pettigrew, a Florida lawyer, was speaker of the Florida House...
...Ambassador to Nicaragua-Dr...
...state government official and executive Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs- director of the Appalachian Trail Conference Forrest Gerard, a Blackfoot Indian, ran a in Harpe s Ferry, West Virginia...
...She had initially agreed tp accept the ambassadorship to El Salvador, but that offer was withdrawn for undisclosed reasons...
...Assistant Director for Management-John Gabusi was special assistant to Rep...
...It is rumored that a major CIA reorganization is in the making, and that Knoche did not like the looks of it...
...He did legal work for the Colorado Treasury Department while Sam Brown, present ACTION director, was state treasurer...
...National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman-Joseph Duffey was Carter’s Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs...
...Administrator for Lath America-Abelardo Vddez is a Washington attotney...
...during his 1976 presidential campaign...
...U. S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations-William vanden Heuvel was a partner in the New York law firm of Strook, Strook and Lavan...
...AG RlCU LTU R E Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs-Harry Wilhelm was the Ford Foundation representative for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, where he promoted domestic research and development programs in agricultural and rural development, education, the arts, population, health and nutrition, and public planning and management...
...Ambassador to Uruguay-Lawrence Pezzulo was deputy assistant secretary of State for congressional relations...
...Representative to the Vatican-David Walters, a Miami lawyer, is the first Catholic to serve in this post...
...Ambassador to Qatar-Andrew Kitgore, a career Foreign Service officer, was deputy chief of the U. S. mission in Wellington, New Zealand...
...He was a member of Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen organization, but long before Nader’s group began examining the nuclear power industry...
...As a polltical scientist she has done work on the role of women in development...
...Associate D ector for Domestic OperationsJohn f ewis ran unsuccessfully for Andrew Young’s Atlanta congressional seat earlier this year...
...Assistant Director for Policy and PlanningIrene Tinker was head of the American Association for the Advancement of li Science’s international office...
...Assistant Administrator of Program and Management Services-Donald McDonald was head of the AID program irt Vietnam...
...He has been with Ford Foundation...
...He was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal in the late 1940s...
...Previously he served as the department for 19 years...
...tional Safety and Health AdministrationAssistant Secretary for Administration and Basil mthgs was a senior program officer Management-Alfred Zuck was the Labor with the division of national affairs at the Department’s comptroller...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS ACTION Director of Congressional Affairs-Daniel Maldonado was chief assistant to Rep...
...Comhodity Futures Trading Commission Director-Michael Caughlin, Jr...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman-Peter Hendrie was a physicist and the chairman of the department of applied science at the Brookhaven National Laboratories...
...Several public interest lobby groups have criticized Hendrie for his support of a breeder reactor project in Tennessee which is opposed by Carter...
...Federal Maritime Commissioner-Bob Casey...
...She was also director of FEA’s consumer affairs office...
...He has also been a staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution...
...A d a t r a t o r of the Food Safety qnd Quality Service-Dr...
...Deputy Administrator of the Federal burance Administration-J...
...He will be purported to emphasize cancer prevention working under Deputy Comfissioner of rather than cure...
...Robert Hunter has been acting administrator of this office since December 1974...
...Chairman of the Federal Council on AgingNelson Cruikshank was president of the National Council of Senior Citizens...
...Federal Energy Administration Assistant Administrator-Hazel Rollins has been general counsel of the Community Services Administration since June 1976...
...Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and InstallationsAntonia Chayes, an early Carter supporter in Massachusetts, was an attorney with the Boston firm Csaplar and Bok and dean of Tufts University’s Jackson College...
...Federal Election Commission Commissioner-John McGarry, a Boston lawyer, was the House special counsel on elections and a staff aide to the House Administration Committee...
...Member-Peter Bradford, a lawyer, worked in the office of former Maine governor Kenneth Curtis...
...He for Manpower Studies at George Washington will serve under Arnold Packer, former chief University...
...COMMERCE Administrator of the National Oceanic and Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Atmospheric Administration-Richard Commerce-W...
...Energy Research and Development Administration Assistant Administrator for Field OperationsDavid Israel was head of ERDA’s Office of Programs Integration...
...He was cochairman, with Midge Costanza, of Carter’s campaign in New York, but failed to impress Hamilton Jordan, and thus did not accompany Costanza to the White House...
...Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service-Thomas Hughes, a Washington consultant, was executive assistant to Orville Freeman during Freeman’s tenures as governor of Minnesota and U. S. Secretary of Agriculture...
...Mauricio Solan, a native of Cuba, was a sociologist at the University of Illinois...
...Community Services Administration Director-Graciela Olivarez was the planning officer for the state of New Mexico...
...Previously she was the Peace Corps’ deputy director for the Windward and Leeward Islands and Barbados...
...He is not highly regarded by his colleagues at the White House, but has survived the reshuffling in this newlycreated office...
...director of the Bureau of Land Management...
...Even though Jordan turned down a proposal-made by the OMB reorganizers-that he become chief of staff, his power is likely to grow...
...Duffey ran Carter’s Washington campaign office, even though Peter Bourne was the official director...
...However it seems he is leaving because of policy differences with Director Stansfield Turner...
...There are now 51 Georgians on the White House staff and 18 more at OMB THE WHITE HOUSE ________~ Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability-Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brooking Institution, was an economic adviser to Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind...
...Assistant hdministrator of the Law Enforce- of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee QP ment Assist ancs Administration-John Juvenile Delinquency...
...Federal Power Commissioner-James Watt...
...special assistant to the administrator of New Deputy Assistant Secretary fpr hogram York City’s Humah Resources AdminisAnalysis and Policy Development-Donald tration...
...He also served as co-chairman of the National Committee on Senior Citizens for the Carter campaign...
...She is married to Harvard law professor Abram Chayes, who was a legal adviser to the State Department during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
...McKinney was also a senior partner of the law firm that represents that association, and chairman of an insurance and construction materials company that does business with some of First Federal’s customers...
...lie tax reform package is more the product of Eizenstat’s staff than Blumenthal’s...
...She was also a prosecutor, following Henry Ruth, Leon regional coordinator for the National EducaJaworski, and Archibald Cox...
...She was also a member of the Kennedy White House staff...
...Ambassador to Bulgaria-Dr...
...TREASURY General Counsel-kobert Mundheim was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a finance professor at the University’s Wharton School of Finance...
...has called Duffey a “cheap political opportunist” who was “hopeless” as chief of AAW and disastrous in his role as head of the liberal organization, Americans for Democratic Action...
...I NTE RlOR Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget, and Affairs Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, Administration-Robert Mendelsohn was a Assistant to the Secretary and Land member of the San Francisco board of Utilization Adviser-Curtis Berkland was supervisors...
...Institute...
...He has been a senior Foreign Service Inspector in the State Department since 1974...
...There may be some opposition to his confirmation because several senators fear that his commitment to energy conservation could jeopardize economic growth...
...Robert Angelotti was associate director for compliance in the FDA’s Bureau of Foods and special assistant to the bureau director...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Marketing Services-Jerry Hill was administrative assistant to former Senator John Tunney Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural DevelopmentHenrietta Duncan McArthur was assistant vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank in Atlanta...
...tional Task Force de La Raza...
...At the bottom of the Cabinet in terms of White House regard is Juanita Kreps (the cruel word is that she’s the Cabinet cripple), with Brock Adams and Patricia Roberts Harris not far behind in the low esteem derby...
...Assistant Director for Community ActionRobert Smith was national coordinator for voter registration for the Democratic National Committee and an aide to presidential assistant Joseph Aragon...
...on the House Appropriatio Committee...
...General Services Administration Administrator of General Services-Jay Solomon was chairman of the board of Arlen Shopping Centers Co...
...Federal Trade Commision, New York Regional Director-Richard Givens resigned after six years with the commission...
...Arms Control ahd Disarmament Agency Assistant Director-John Newhouse has been a counselor for national security programs at ACDA since 1973, He is the author of Cold Dawn, h book on the strategic arms limitation talks that received The Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award in 1974...
...Assistant Administrator for Toxic Chemical Control-Steve Jellinek was staff director of the Council on Environmental Quality...
...Stuart Eizenstat’s seems to be growing...
...Mundheim’s academic expertise in corporate and financial law won him the nomination...
...Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator for Intra-governmental and International Affairs-Ted Van Dyk was an assistant to Senator Hubert Humphrey and a top policy adviser for McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign...
...Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management-Bill Drayton prepared reorgmization proposals for the Carter transition team...
...He has also been a staff counsel dealing with maritime issues for the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee...
...Administrator for Africa-Golen Butcher, a Washington lawyer with White, Fine, and V e d e ; was counsel of the House International Relations Committee and a foreign affairs adviser tii the Carter campaign...
...Assistant Secretary for Energy and Min- Deputy Director of the Bureau of Outdoor erals-Joan Davenpo~ had been with the Recreation-Paul Pritchard was a Georgia Federal Energy Administration since 1975...
...She favors increasing competition among airlines as a means of reducing fares...
...When Axelson withdrew his name from consderation, tainted by corporate scandal revelations, Carswell was moved up to the Deputy slot, leaving open the cbunsel position...
...In 1974-75 she was a professor at Georgetown University’s Law Rockefeller Fellow assigned to the staff of Center, was the fourth Watergate special then-Senator Walter Mondale...
...Tennessee Valley Authority Director-S...
...He was also a deputy director of the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor of the NRC...
...Interstate Commerce Commissioner-Dale Hardin...
...He was also a Democratic precinct chairman and a member of the Hamilton County (Tennessee) Democratic Executive Committee...
...and a top executive of its parent firm, Arlen Realty and Development Corp., which is the largest shopping center development firm in the country...
...Washington consulting firm that lobbies for Deputy solicitor-Fl;ed Fervon was assist’five Indian tribes...
...Director of the Peace Corps-Carolyn Payton was head of the Howard University Counseling Center...
...John Brademas (D-Ind...
...Assistant Administrator for Water and Hazardous Materials-Thomas Jorling was director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College...
...She worked in the SEC’s New York Regional Office from 1962-68...
...Like Hendrie, he is regarded as being pro-industry concerning the pace of nuclear development...
...Administrator of the Packers and Stockyards Administration-Charles Jennings was president of the Kansas City Stockyards and president of the American Stockyards Association...
Vol. 9 • September 1977 • No. 7
