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Page 14 — 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 SPECIAL Sat. & Sun. Matinee 2P.M. SUPERBUG $0 IS BACK MXfOR COVER »i *j n til ♦ i Kjy If*’ AUMINGS ] ; .oCOLOR AU Seats SI.OO Proceeds Go To Little League. PARKWOOD CINEMA ROCKY BEST ACTOR ■ SYLVESTER ■■ ■ BEST ACTRESS ■ BEST DIRECTOR A A *lll*lll/ JOHN G AVILOSEN AL AD tm I best screenplay ■ SYLVESTER STALLONE AU/A Dh best original song MlVMllLr GONNA FLY NOW NOMINATIONS «?Jr SUPPORT "’ g INCLUDING v. BEST PICTURE 7:15 & 9:45 PARKWOOD I I JI ■ w I V .. «%aH Nightly 7:15-#: 15 P.M. PARKWOOD CINEMA U L4''- Xp sw B win — { ■<’' 5 y F»om I * “•"’*' COO'H».~<M.<X-« Cornyn, ,» PARKWOOD CIHEMA 111 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: '■’fl HHb' For Sale This beautiful home in Evergreen Forest - 713 Sherwood Drive - Includes carport, fenced backyard, workshop building, 2 bedrooms, living room, den, dining room, and is freshly painted on the inside. Priced right for quick sale - Don’t miss out on this fantastic home with central heat Only $26,000. Shown by appointment only. PROFESSIONAL REALTY CO. Professional Bldg. • 107 W. Taylor St. Phone 228-4500 Bill Goldstein Frankie Goldstein Sales Associate Broker Home 227-3673 Home - 227-4963 SEE US FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS “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. 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