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Bradley - Top Reagan Transition Team Member
By Bob Johnson
Three months ago,
prior to Nov. 4,1980 if the
name Mel Bradley
surfaced as a black
member of the Reagan
Presidential team, it
would have been greeted
with derision by certain
Blacks.
In less than a month
after President-Elect
Reagan's sweeping
Presidential victory,
Bradley has become one
of the most sought after
Blacks in the United
States.
Bradley has been
affiliated with the
Reagan organization for
14 years. His affiliation
with the President-Elect
began in 1970, when he
was named an Assistant
to-the-governor for
Community Relations,
while Reagan was
governor of California.
Bradley served in the
post until 1975, when
Reagan’s gubernatorial
duties ended. He then
became public relations
director from 1975-77 for
the Charles R. Drew Post
Graduate Medical School
in Los Angeles.
In 1977, he became an
assistant to regional vice
president of the United
Airlines on the West
Coast. Meanwhile,
Bradley remained in
close contact with the
Reagan team.
When the
Presidential primary
began early this year,
Bradley took leave from
“the friendly skies of
United” to join Reagan’s
march towards the
presidency.
As a member of the
Reagan transition team,
Bradley serves with the
top advisers of the
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But her acting
career has been limited.
She lists as her acting
credit only that she ap
peared in her first play in
elementary school at
Weed here in Augusta.
But getting used to
the rigors of a major
production wasn’t that
difficult, she said.
“Rehearsals were
excruciating in the
beginning. If it (the play)
wasn’t shaping up like it
was supposed to, the
director really pushed
us.”
Getting used to the
role she was to play was
difficult though, Ms.
Moore said. “I was
playing a floozie I sup
pose you would call it. I
had to wear this tight
dress where everything
showed. I didn’t know if I
could do it.”
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President’s corps of
recruiters for the
management positions in
the new administration.
The principal leader of
the team is Edward
Meese. The top level
executive recruiting
effort is headed by
Pendleton James, a
specialist in executive
recruiting.
Bradley’s role is to
uncover minority can
didates for the top 200
federal management
positions. They involve
the cabinet and sub
cabinet posts such as the
assistant secretaries and
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High honors: Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was recently
recognized at the National Urban League Equal Opportunity Day dinner in New York for her outstanding contributions
in fighting discrimination. The dinner also provided an opportunity for the City of St. Louis to present a special resolution
to Ms. Norton praising her work. St. Louis Aiderman Wayman F. Smith 111 (left), vice president of corporate affairs for
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But she did it and
apparently the play was
well-received since it
lasted well beyond its
originally scheduled run.
Jobe Huntley, who
collaborated with
Langston Hughes and
wrote the music for the
play came to the pre-view
of the play. Now up in
age, Huntley was ap
parently so overjoyed he
cried, Ms. Moore said.
“Tambourines to
Glory’’ is a ballard
written around gospel
music. It was first
produced in the summer
of 1960 with a cast of
Hazel Scott, Nipsey
Russell, Georgia Burke
and Clara Ward. It
opened on Broadway in
1963 starring Hilda Sims,
Lou Gossett, Robert
Guillaume, Clara Ward
and Micki Grant.
administrators of the
various federal agencies.
Bradley, after
examining the resumes,
submitted by job can
didates transfers them to
the appropriate agency,
where they are fed to
computers. His follow-up
comes after the cabinet
secretary or agency head
is selected. With the
associate director of the
President’s appointments
staff, Bradley will meet
with each of the cabinet
officers to discuss the
appointment of a
minority in a high-level
federal executive post.
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Bradley, armed with
his collection of resumes,
will comment on the
strengths and
weaknesses of the
minority candidates that
he provides. However, he
points out, it will be the
cabinet officers’ choice.
Bradley says that as
a member of the policy
staff, he represents the
President Elect and the
selection “must be ac
ceptable to the
President.” He doesn’t
forsee any difficulty in
that regard, however.
Since mid-November
until the first week of
December, Bradley has
received more than 700
applications. He and his
staff have examined each
carefully. Each has been
acknowledged.
His work will be
completed by January 20,
1981, when the President-
Elect takes the oath of
office. After January 20,
where does Bradley go?
Will it be the White House
staff? a federal agency?
Or back to Altadena,
California with his wife
and four children?
He can’t answer
because he hasn’t been
offered a job. But,
whatever happens, his
current Washington
experience “although
exhausting, has been a
thrilling and fulfilling
experience.”
DEWAR’S PROFILE
A thirst for living. a taste for fine Scotch.
DAVID HARDY
BORN: Plainfield, New Jersey, 1942.
HOME: West New York, New Jersey.
PROFESSION: Investigative/political
reporter. New York Daily News.
RESPONSIBILITY: To share reality
with others, even though I’m
mindful that reality is not always an
inspiring spectacle.”
STORY: “Be it a homicide, a zoning
fight, a political scandal, or simply
a tale of a compassionate Jersey
City hot dog vendor, my job is
sometimes thrilling, often onerous,
occasionally perilous, but always
interesting"
QUOTE: “Every human being
should possess a sense of morality
about society and accept personal
responsibility for his Or her role.”
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