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Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 22,1977
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during his third day of questioning by the Senate
Government Affairs Committee. (AP)
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Judy Carter
NEW YORK (AP) — Judy Carter, the President’s
daughter-in-law, says “nice” women ought to get out and
work for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Writing in Redbook magazine, for which she is a new
contributing editor, the wife of President Carter’s son
Jack, says her talks with women both for and against
ERA revealed that the effort to get the constitutional
amendment through state legislatures is suffering from
an image problem.
“Most of the attention,” she said, “has been focused on
a very small number of ERA’S millions of supporters:
those who have been demanding and strident in their
support, the pro-ERA groups that also support some
unrelated and far more controversial issues ...”
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Dancer Sally Rand
DETROIT (AP) — Dancer Sally Rand can go back to
swishing her fans after a three-week convalescence for a
lung ailment, hospital officials say.
The famed 73-year-old fan dancer is scheduled to begin
dancing again at a Lincoln Park nightclub tonight through
Oct. 8.
Miss Rand spent two weeks being treated for a
respiratory infection at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
LONDON (AP) — Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ordered his
private army into the fray one last time, this time mar
ching them off to auction where the 3,000 lead soldiers
earned him $16,212.
Fairbanks, 67, who like his father was a swashbuckling
movie hero, had to bid goodbye to his loyal band of 2-inch
tall men because he didn’t have room for them in his
London home. He began collecting them 55 years ago.
Gov., Mrs. Wallace
MONTGOMERY, Ata. (AP) — Legal jousting over who
will preside at the divorce proceedings of Gov. George
Wallace and his wife, Cornelia, is moving into the state
Court of Civil Appeals.
Attorneys for Mrs. Wallace said Wednesday they would
appeal the decision of Family Court Judge John W. Davis
(II that he can give an unbiased hearing to the case.
Whitfield
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DALTON, Ga. (AP)
Whitfield County commission
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Nov. 29 deadline for hooking up
their fire hydrants to Dalton’s
water system in order to qualify
for a $484,000 federal grant.
So far no date has been set for
a meeting with city officials for
permission to tie into the city
owned water lines, county of
ficials say.
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Anatomy of a resignation
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter decided
sometime Tuesday that it was time to stop playing cat and
mouse with the future of Bert Lance.
So Carter scheduled a long delayed news conference,a
decision that touched off a rapid series of developments
that reached a climax Wednesday with his announcement
that Lance, his friend, confidant and sometime banker,
was resigning as director of the Office of Management
and Budget.
Although many predecessors were names-without-faces
so far as most Americans were concerned, Lance was
much more. He was close to Carter. A lot of folks thought
about him as “deputy president.”
Jody Powell, the White House press secretary, in an
noucing the news conference, quoted his boss as saying,
“Why don’t we just go ahead and have one? I’m tired of
moving the thing around.”
When Powell was asked if these were Carter’s exact
words, he reported the President was “more vivid than
that.”
It was one sign of the emotional atmosphere around the
White House when Carter decided to meet the press after
holding off for a week because he wasn’t ready with any
firm answers about Lance’s fate.
The decision to hold the news conference was closely
followed by hurry-up meetings climaxed by the Lance
resignation. Powell was asked afterwards if Carter had
set out, in this fashion, to send Lance the message that it
was time to make some basic decisions.
“Obviously, that was a possibility,” Powell replied.
A few days earlier, Powell had said of a forced Lance
resignation, “Certainly that would not be an easy thing for
the President to do.”
So there was at least an outward impression that
Carter, unwilling to fire his friend to rid himself of a
potential political liability, forced the issue in away that
prodded Lance into taking the initiative.
Once the news conference was scheduled, the next step
involved a supposedly casual tennis match on the White
House courts. It was the kind of match that only the
President could engineer.
Powell announced the decision to hold the news confer
ence at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. At 5 p.m., the President,
Lance, top presidential aide Hamilton Jordan and speech
writer Jim Fallows began a round of tennis on the White
House courts. The game ended at 6:30 p.m.
Jordan and Fallows departed. Carter and Lance sat,
alone, on chairs near the secluded tennis court.
There, with the sun beginning to set, Lance told his
longtime friend, the President, that it would be best if he
left the Office of Management and Budget and returned to
Georgia. However, he said he wanted to talk with his wife
and his attorney.
Lance was back at the White House by 6:30 a m
Wednesday for another talk with Carter.
During the day, Carter went about his scheduled ap
pointments — the daily national security briefing, a talk
about a range of government issues — but not Bert Tance
— with a group of Republican senators, and a meeting
with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy.
Lance went to his Georgetown home for lunch with his
wife, Laßelle. After lunch, the Lances came out to drive to
the White House for one more talk with Carter. There was
a parking ticket on Lance’s windshield.
Carter had planned to begin his nationally broadcast
news conference at 3 p.m. But at 2:10 p.m., after the talk
with the Lances, the President and Powell decided to
delay the news conference until 5 p.m.
Lance wanted time to consult with his attorney, Clark
Clifford, about the resignation letter being prepared.
After the meeting with Carter, Lance kissed his wife
goodbye. She drove home and he stayed behind in the Old
Executive Office Building complex next to the White
House.
Carter used the extra two hours to leave the White
House west wing, where his office is situated, and return
to the White House mansion, where the family quarters
and formal rooms are located.
Then the President dropped by a briefing for state of
ficials on the Panama Canal treaty. He gave no hint about
the climax to the Lance case that was imminent.
: Shortly before 5 p.m., the President walked across the
private street between the White House and the Old Exec
utive Office Building and took an elevator to the fourth
floor. At seven seconds after 5 p.m., he entered the
auditorium where his news conferences are held and said:
“I would like to read first a letter that I have just
received from Bert Lance....”
Grimly, he answered questions. Within 34 minutes, he
was done, without waiting for the traditional closing,
“Thank you, Mr. President,” that signals the end of a
news conference.
He looked at his wrist watch, offered his own “thank you
very much,” and walked away alone to the Oval Office.