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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 22, 1977
‘He’s honest and good, and I’m proud of him’
Mrs. Lance will not see azaleas bloom
WASHINGTON (AP) - In-
Belle Lance was wrong. She and
her husband won’t be around to
see their azaleas bloom next
spring.
They’re going back to Geor
gia.
Just a week ago, the wife of
the former budget director
pointed to the azaleas she and
her husband had planted in the
back yard of their Georgetown
house as a sign of their deter
mination to ride out the con
troversy about Lance’s finan
cial affairs.
They would be in Washington
to see the azaleas bloom, she
said.
But Lance resigned Wednes-
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day and said he would go home
to Georgia.
“I still feel he could take a job
anywhere,” Mrs. Lance said
shortly after President Carter
announced the resignation on
national television. “He’s
honest and good, and I’m proud
of him.”
Within minutes after Presi
dent Carter’s press conference,
Mrs. Lance stepped out on the
front steps of their fashionable
Georgetown house to make
what she called a “statement of
faith.”
Her husband, who had watch
ed the televised press con
ference at home with his wife,
would have no further com-
31 cents to 55 cents.
Profits for the first eight
months were $5.6 million, in
cluding $3.6 million in insurance
payments for a DC-9 that
crashed near New Hope, Ga., in
April, killing 72 persons. The
profits for the first eight months
of 1976 were $1.69 million.
ment, she said. But clearly,
Mrs. Lance would.
“I did not have anything to do
with the resignation,” Mrs.
Lance said in a voice that was
tentative at first, then grew
strong, and finally broke sev
eral times with emotion. “As
far as I’m concerned, my hus
band didn’t have to resign.”
In fact, she counselled him
not to, she said: “I told him I
would not resign, but again, that
was not my decision.”
Mrs. Lance, who earlier in the
day looked tired and distraught,
had changed from slacks to an
expensive pale blue ultrasuede
dress. She appeared, as one
observer said, “at peace with
the decision.”
Neighbors and children on
skateboards gathered with re
porters to hear Mrs. Lance pro
claim faith in her husband, her
country and her religion.
“”’e’re still proud to be Ameri
viiis,” she said.
Mrs. Lance, a devout Method
ist who writes religious poetry,
said faith helped her through
the past few weeks. “As long as
I can walk in the light of Christ,
I have faith that he puts me
where he wants me,” she said.
“And my husband shares that
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Calhoun, Ga., friends of Bert Lance listen to his
resignation announced by President Jimmy Carter
Wednesday. Watching television at the Gordon County
Chamberof Commerce are from left: Rev. Bob Maddox;
same faith.”
She married Lance 27 years
ago. Both were 19. He was the
son of an educator in the Geor
gia mountains, she the grand
daughter of the founder of the
Calhoun bank. Several years
later, Lance became a teller in
that bank. By age 32, he was
president.
One point that brought Lance
criticism in congressional hear
ings was the use of overdrafts
by Lance and his relatives at
the Calhoun bank. Mrs. Lance
had overdrafts in her account
ranging up to SIIO,OOO.
She said last week that she
was not aware that she had
written overdrafts. And, she
said, even so “there was noth
ing wrong with the way it was
because the funds were in the
bank.”
“I’m proud of you all,” she
said to reporters recording her
statement. “And I hope some
day, somewhere, you’ll want
(Lance) or some other good
businessman in your govern
ment.”
Mrs. Lance, who prides her
self on being a housewife, beg
ged off further questions. “I
don’t know how to answer them
like the njen,” she said.
Lance still hero
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) - At 5
p.m. Wednesday the sign on the
road to Bert Lance’s home town
said, “Support Bert. Call the
White House.”
An hour later, after President
Carter had announced the
budget director’s resignation,
the sign said, “Welcome Home,
Bert Lance.”
Routed from his top federal
job, the former S9O-a-week bank
teller who became a millionaire
and top adviser to the President
was still a hero to the local
folks.
This northeast Georgia town
saw its most famous son resign
a week to the day after 1,500
friends and neighbors held an
emotional rally to cheer and
pray and weep for Lance as he
prepared to go before a Senate
committee questioning his fis
cal integrity.
But the emotions apparently
had been spent at the rally,
as they waited and watched
Carter’s somber announcement
of Lance’s resignation from the
Office of Management and
Budget, people were sad, quiet
and bitter.
“He’s a good ol’ boy,” said
Luther Begley, clerk of the
county court and a solid Lance
supporter. “I really enjoyed it
when they got the Republicans
during Watergate, but I don’t
like this at all.”
When Carter read Lance’s
letter of resignation at a nation
ally televised news conference,
his voice stumbled as he read,
“I have decided to submit my
resignation as director of
0MB.”
Jack Mullins stood behind the
counter of his pharmacy and
swore softly. He claimed Wash
ington liberals attacked Lance
because they opposed his plan
to cut the federal bureaucracy.
“He’s the only fiscal con-
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Laßelle Lance, wife of Bert Lance talks to reporters who
gathered outside their Georgetown home following the
announcement of her husband’s resignation as director of
the OMB. (AP)
Joe Brewster, county administrator; Paul Whittemore;
Harold “Ookle” Faith, county commissioner; B. J. Bell.
Standing right is Mayor Billy Burdette. (AP)
servative up there,” said Mul
lins, speculating that northern
antipathy toward southerners
fueled much of the opposition to
Lance.
“I feel real, real bad,” said
the Rev. Bob Maddox, a Baptist
minister. “Bert has spoken in
all the churches as a lay
speaker. If he met you, he never
forgot your name. If your name
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was in the paper, you always
got a note from him. Bert was a
real personable guy.”
“It’s a horrible mistake,”
said Harbin King, probate judge
of Gordon County and one of a
handful of local civic leaders Iho
gathered in front of a television
set in the Chamber of Com
merce office to watch Carter’s
news conference.
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