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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 30,1977
Review
Carter’s first 100 days
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
ident Carter is described as
"ready, very much so,” for
months of heated congressional
debate on energy and other vol
atile issues because he is a po
litical professional “who knows
how to get things done.”
This was the assessment of
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Bert Lance, director of the Of
fice of Management and Budg
et, as the first major debate of
the Carter presidency — over
energy policy — was getting
under way.
And looking back over the
first 100 days of the Carter
presidency, Lance, one of Car
ter’s long-time governmental
partners and proteges here and
in Atlanta, was reminded of a
Carter campaign statement
that “I want to be tested in the
most severe way.”
“He’s ready, very much so,”
said in a telephone inter
view. He said Carter is particu
larly ready to be tested on
energy because he enters the
debate with a “deep sense of
commitment” that favorable
action on his blueprint is essen
tial.
There is near-universal
agreement in Washington that
the unveiling last week of Car
ter’s controversial, many-facet
ed energy blueprint marked a
turning point for the new ad
ministration away from a
“honeymoon” period and to
ward long months of intensive
jockeying over the nuts and
bolts of government.
Asked if he believes Carter is
prepared for the energy com
promises that many observers
regard as inevitable, Lance de
clined to embrace the premise
that major compromises can be
expected. But he asserted:
“First of all, the evidence
speaks for itself. He’s an awful
ly good politician. He knows
how to get things done. He
might not call himself a trader,
but he knows where he wants to
go and how he intends to get
there.”
Hamilton Jordan, a key Car
ter assistant, acknowledges
that with the end of the first 100
days there has been a turning
point in Carter’s relations with
Congress and the people,
brought about by the Presi
dent’s energy proposals.
While he said there has been
no change of attitude or mood at
the White House, Carter aides
were pleased that at this point
“a lot of plans are ready to be
translated into policy and
legislation.”
Energy issues are only part of
what promises to be a marathon
test of Carter’s ability to
implement sweeping campaign
pledges to simplify the tax sys
tem, revise welfare programs
and prune the federal bureau
cracy — all questions that will
be ready for congressional de
bate by the end of this year.
Consciously, Carter set out in
his first 100 days to gird himself
for the battles ahead by
successfully campaigning to
elevate his own popularity rat
ing, recorded at a lofty 72 per
cent in the most recent Gallup
Poll. In the process, he has
come close to elevating political
symbolism into an art form.
In Carter’s view, symbolism
and substance are inseparable,
with the latter flowing from the
former.
If wearing sweaters, holding
“town meetings” and mothball
ing chauffered government lim
ousines helped to make him
popular and enhanced an image
of trustworthiness, Carter is
convinced his opportunities for
dealing successfully with tough
problems are correspondingly
increased.
As he told some visiting jour
nalists last month:
“The authority and the power
and leadership capabilities of
any president are derived al
most completely from the sup
port that I have from the people
of the country.”
Lance recalled that Carter’s
efforts as governor to reorga
nize the Georgia bureaucracy
were the biggest drag on his
popularity in that state.
Asked if impending reorgani
zation battles here were likely
to yield a similar result, Lance
said he thought the opposite
might occur.
Although the budget chief
said reorganization plans,
which will start flowing from
the White House in June, will
mightily upset a wide range of
special interest groups, he ex
pressed the view that there is a
broad national demand for
reorganization.
In that situation, he said,
Carter may actually enhance
his national constituency.
Carter’s constituency was
slim indeed when he entered of
fice, having collected a bare 51
per cent of last November’s
votes. From the outset, in his
inaugural address, the new
president moved to appeal for
broader support, saying:
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“You have given me a great
responsibility — to stay close to
you, to be worthy of you, and to
exemplify what you are.”
So he walked to his new home
from that ceremony, rationed
renditions of “Hail to the
Chief,” avoided limousines that
looked like limousines, held a
fireside chat, starred in his own
radio call-in show, revived
regular news conferences and
enrolled daughter Amy in a
public school.
Richard E. Neustadt, Har
vard professor and author of
“Presidential Power,” told The
Associated Press in early Feb
ruary that he was optimistic
Carter could make a success of
such uses of symbolism, al
though acknowledging, “it’s go
ing to be very hard to keep it
from ... appearing phony or
falling of its own weight.”
Neustadt added:
“If gestures — these symbolic
statements — are arresting,
noticeable, widely approved
and popular, they will widen
your mandate ... Voters don’t
pass bills, but the climate that’s
created makes an enormous
difference.”
Jimmy Carter obviously
agrees. Taking note of his 70-
plus approval rating, he pre
dicted last month that his ener
gy program would cause him to
“lose 10 or 15 per cent of that.”
But he added, “I’m willing to
give up some of my own per
sonal popularity among the
people of this country to require
them to face the brutal facts”
about dwindling supplies of oil
and natural gas.
The question is: Would Carter
show a similar willingness to
spend his political capital if he
still could claim no more than 51
per cent approval?
That’s the real nub of Carter’s
argument that symbolism and
substance have partnership
roles in making successful
presidential leadership
possible.
Os course, performance also
figures in the President’s equa
tion. He has said it is important
that Americans see him as a
man who will do what he prom
ises.
After the election, Carter had
his staff compile his campaign
commitments in book form, as a
reminder to himself. Ac
knowledged to be incomplete, it
lists 645 separate “promises.”
If Carter is to make good on
all of them, he must, on the av
erage, fulfill a different promise
every 2V« days during the
balance of his term.
To date, he has redeemed a
number of them, including par
doning Vietnam era draft re
sisters, speaking up for human
rights abroad, seeking cutbacks
in nuclear arms levels and
working for the creation of a
new energy department.
Only one campaign com
mitment has been scrapped —
and that happened before the
inaugural. Carter no longer
seeks standby wage and price
controls.
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