Who's Who in the Carter Administration
Who’s Who in the Carter Administration Now that Lance has left, James McIntyre and Bowman Cutter are running the OMB, but neither is likely to be named director. McIntyre, according to those who...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Federal Trade Commission Coordinator of Federal-State Relations in the Office of the Executive Director-Isaiah T. Creswell, Jr...
...Ascencio is a 20-year veteran of the Foreign Service and was deputy chief of mission at the American embassy in Caracas, Venezuela...
...He is also former assistant secretary of State for African affairs...
...Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration-Robert R. Humphreys was special counsel to the Senate Human Resqurces Committee...
...Murphy is described as “a very strong leader who’s able to hold his own in the bureaucracy” and is a four-star admiral...
...Ambassador to Romania-0...
...served as assistant staff director for the U.S...
...was staff director of the Senate’s special subcommittee on arts and humanities and before that was first deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts...
...Reportedly, he thinks that the American policy is right but could not have been presented in a more tactless manner to the Israelis and to American Jewry...
...LABOR Administrator, Office of Youth Programs, Employment, and Training Administration-Robert Taggart 111, a former executive director of the National Council on Employment Policy, took over this brand-new program...
...Inspector General-Thomas F. McBride has been director of the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Bureau of Enforcement and was COX and Jaworski...
...National Endowment for the Arts Chairman-Livingston L. Biddle, Jr...
...General Counsel-Lynn R. Cqleman was a Washington attorney for John Connally’s Houston law firm, Vinson and Elkins...
...He was involved with two projects that were axed by the President-the B-1 bomber and the Clinch River, Tennessee breeder reactor...
...Federal Housing Commission Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentSheldon L. Schreiberg was in the law firm Stroock, Stroock & Lavan...
...Robert Nastanovich, Midge Costanza’s deputy, was one of the few victims above the rank of secretary in the recent White House staff reduction , . , . If Bob Bergland’s reorganization of the Department of Agriculture is typical of what Carter’s reorganizers are going to do, don’t expect revolutionary change...
...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman-Charles B. Curtis was chairma0 of the Federal Power Commission...
...Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Chairman-Timothy F. Cleary has been a mcmber of the commission since its beginning...
...Rudolph Aggrey is a black career diplomat who previously served as envoy to Senegal and Gambia...
...Andrus says that this expansion calls for a change in leadership and is seeking the aid of the National Academy of Sciences to find a replacement for McKelvey...
...She has been replaced in New York by Cesar A. Perales, who was director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council in New York City...
...8 HEW Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation-Peter Schuck was director of the Washington office of the Consumers Union and a lawyer with Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law...
...Pannell became the first black to head a county farmers’ administration office 19 years ago...
...Ambassador to Phillipines-David D. Newsom is a pro in this post, having already served as ambassador to Indonesia...
...Director of Energy Research-John M. Deutch, once a systems analyst at the Pentagon, was chairman of the Chemistry Department at MIT...
...is a former State and Defense Department official who has been Schlesinger’s advisor on world affairs...
...National Security Council Director of Soviet Affairs-Reginald BartholOmew is a political scientist who has been involved in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union since 1968...
...He will collect $100 for every day he must travel to Washington on business...
...He is also a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution...
...Coleman’s nomination encountered some opposition because of his previous work as a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry...
...Cooper is retired and a former director of the Mississippi Council of Farm Cooperatives and Executive Director of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation...
...This two-fold position also places Murphy in charge of intelligence and counterintelligence...
...Ambassador to Colombia-Diego C. Ascencio is a career diplomat born in Spain...
...ENERGY Deputy Secretary-John F. O’Leary was fired by Nixon for being too tough on the mine owners as Director of the Bureau of the Mines and is now attacked by environmentalists for having been too soft on nuclear power while he was director of licensing for the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Cutter is thought to be bright and able but too young for the top job...
...Forty administrative units will be reduced to 26, but none of the department’s employees will be f e d , and the reorganization, in Bergland’s words, “may not save any large amounts of money...
...INTERIOR Director, U.S...
...A career employee of the FmHA, Pannell will have charge of California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands...
...AGRICULTURE Board of Governors, Farm Credit Administration-Owen Cooper is a resident of Yazoo City, Mississippi who opened his home to President Carter when Carter held a “town meeting” there last summer...
...Bernstein’s new post involves planning in welfare reform, national health insurance, and related matters...
...STATE Ambassador to Bolivia-Paul Boeker was a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff...
...He is a former professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a staff attorney for Ralph Nader’s Health Research Group...
...Geological Survey-Vincent E. McKelvey, long time member of the Survey staff, was forced to resign his post when Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus decided to expand the role and responsibilities of the Survey...
...Director, Office of Civil Rights-David Tatel was a partner in a leading Washington law firm, Hogan and Hartson...
...The Farm Credit Administration supervises the cooperative banks that make up the Farm Credit System...
...Governor Zell Miller...
...He is now a deputy director of political-military affairs at the State Department...
...George’s and Princeton...
...Gammill replaces James B. King, who has moved to the National Transportation Safety Board...
...One of Bobby Kennedy’s assistants at Justice and in the 1968 campaign, he served as Peace Corps director in Panama...
...Since we told you last month that Hamilton Jordan was getting into foreign policy, his friends are anxious for it to be known that he had nothing to do with the Soviet-American agreement on the Mid-East...
...Director, Office of Management and Budget -Thomas Bertram Lance, close friend of President Carter, resigned his post following weeks of controversy and three days of Senate hearings on his personal financial affairs and alleged mismanagement of two Georgia banks before taking his government post...
...44 Special Assistant to the Secretary for Planning and Information-Bernice Bernstein was the New York regional director of HEW...
...Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator for Research and Administration-Stephen J. Gage, deputy assistant administrator for energy, minerals, and industry, is a former White House fellow and has been an EPA staffer since 1974...
...Lance was the President’s first Cabinetlevel nominee and one of the most influential and personally popular members of the Administration...
...Undersecretary-Dale D. Myers was a vicepresident at Rockwell International...
...His sponsors include the Hill’s two big powers in the arts, John Brademas and Claiborne Pell, who was his classmate at St...
...Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and Institutional Relations-Phillip S. Hughes was an assistant comptroller general, director of the General Accounting Office’s federal elections office, a Brookings fellow, and deputy director of the Bureau of Budget...
...DEFENSE Deputy for Intelligence, Director of Policy Review-Admiral Daniel J. Murphy is a native of Brooklyn who served as deputy to George Bush when he was director of the CIA...
...TREASURY Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel-John M. Samuels is a New York lawyer and former artner with the firm of Dewey, Ballantine, ushby, Palmer, and Wood...
...State Director of the Farmers’ Home Administration-Lowell A. Pannell is the first black to hold a state directorship in this agency...
...Benjamin Hooks in this post, as anticipated...
...He is also a forme1 staff member of the Air Transport Association of America...
...RESIGNATIONS AND WITHDRAWN NOM I N AT I 0 NS WHITE HOUSE Appointments Secretary to the Carter Family-Rick Hutto resigned to join the campaign staff of Georgia Lt...
...Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research-Harold H. Saunders was a member of Henry Kissinger’s inner circle of foreign policy experts...
...Civil Rights Commission from 1969 until this May...
...He was deputy administrator of the Federal Energy Administration...
...Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology -Robert D. Thorne, once an Atomic Energy Commission official, was acting assistant administrator for nuclear energy at the Energy Research and Development Administration...
...Myers will be responsible for energy conservation programs and for overseeing spending programs...
...Member-Betram R. Cottine was a special assistant to the assistant secretary of Labor for occupational safety and health...
...Appointments Since Our Last Issue: THE WHITE HOUSE Personnel Director-James F. G a m a , Jr., a young veteran of the Carter campaign, moved up to the top personnel office spot after serving as deputy director of the office...
...Defense Civil Preparedness Agency Deputy Director-Clifford E. McLain is a scientist-engineer whose Army-civilian profession goes back to the 1950’s, when he worked with the Wernher von Braun team in Huntsville, Alabama...
...Rick Hutto, who was described by the press as “resigning” from his White House job, did so only after being tipped by a friend that his separation papers were being processed...
...Civil Aeronautics Board Member-Donald L. Tucker’s nomination was withdrawn by Carter because of opposition in the Senate Commerce Committee based on some questionable financial dealings by Tucker in Florida...
...He was also an adjunct professor of law at New York University...
...Assistant Secretary for Policy and EvaluationAlvin L. Alm was assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and has been a top member of Secretary Schlesinger’s White House staff...
...Administrator of the Economic Regulatory Administration-David J. Bardin will direct the energy pricing and allocation functions of the department...
...Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator of Foreign Aid-Ted Van Dyk resigned his position as the thirdranking foreign aid official at AID after sharp disagreements with John F. Gilligan, AID’S top administrator...
...A black Washington lawyer, Brown is a former general counsel for the broadcast properties of The Washington Post...
...Cleary replaces Frank R. Barnako, who continues to serve on the commission...
...After that, he was a volunteer with the National Coalition for a Consumer Protection Agency...
...Federal Communications Commission Co-Chairman-Tyrone Brown succeeds Dr...
...JUSTICE Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division-William Schaffer is a former training officer for the Public Defender Service...
...Murphy’s responsibilities include budgeting and intelligence assignments for the Pentagon...
...McIntyre, according to those who know White House thinking, is regarded as a capable deputy but as lacking the presence of a director...
...Federal Aviation Administration Chief Counsel-Clark H. Onstad was a member of the Washington law firm Ginsburg, Feldman, and Bress...
...Assistant Secretary for International Affairs -Harry E. Bergold, Jr...
Vol. 9 • November 1977 • No. 9
