European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Good Olms cloned Spring the White House Penny Pincher by Laura Foreman new York times Hose Washington bigwigs deprived of their limousines May nut know but their troubles Are probably rooted in the hard scrabble soil of Southern Georgia and the Price of apples there years Aio i can remember a Day when my Cousin and 1 ate a dozen apples in one recalls Hugh Carter the Man responsible for plucking most of the perquisites from Emp loves of the current administration apples were 38 cents a dozen in those Days my dad came Home and got on lie we cant afford to have you rating a dozen apples a it May seem a Small thine hut it is significant that 34 year old Hugh Carter remembers it is significant that president Carters second who was chosen to be special assistant for administration at the White comes from a county so poor even in the booming South of its average annual per capita income was Only a Hough the Carters were fairly Well off when Jimmy Carter was growing and doing better still when Hugh came along a generation that was by Sumter county and those Are among the lowest in the to a Man like Hugh saving a year on april 1977 leased cars or the executive office of the president is no Mere symbolic then there is the principle of the from the Van Tage Point of Southern the waste generated by pomp and perquisites is not just it is working Here at the while through Loo Many comforts and too Many Nice the staff Hill forget what its like to be a average american with problems Tike getting to work in the Carter said in a recent some of the extras that staffers have been doing with out since Carter started seeing to to that they kept the common touch Are the Worth of subscriptions to newspapers and some 250 television sets and 17s afm All this brings to mind Jimmy As Gover nor of purportedly effected an annual savings in stale and whose employees sprinkled the mansion Lawn at 2 to avoid being be rated by their Boss for wasting in there is much Carter that remind one of his Hes Jimmy 20 years As one old Friend put he the real Jimmy Hugh is recognizable As a Carter even before he opens his Mouth to Emit those creamy vowels and melted Congo the Broad freckled and prematurely weath the Slat Blue tousled hair and Grin All proclaim the so does the impression he gives of having a triple vol personality smiling exterior with the Sugges Tion beneath of a steely and beyond that a keen perception and appreciation of the absurdities and ironies of the human it he irritated by be fact hat some of his while House Call him Cousin or does it Hist amuse him is be bothered that White House might like to have kept the privileges that heretofore gone with the territory he seems almost bewildered by be most of the staff Here is not used to frills and he said most of them have things Treyve never had before we run a lot tighter ship than we theres no question about Carter weve Cut the fat and the frills taut nothing that we need to do the three or four reporters have asked me if i do this for he with a slight show of i can Best answer that by come Back a year from now and see if were still doing the same tlingit we have the same number of automobiles and to sets in six months or a car As we do then folks will know were Seri he hastened to Point out thai frills and Perks were Only a Small part of his Job the big part is managing the 300 persons who work at the White House and acting As presidential Liaison with the secret the Federal protective service and the Honor guards and other Mili tary personnel connected with the i like it a he said of the Job its very similar to what i was doing for the Harland company operations Carter had worked for the John har land an Atlan abased Check printing firm before the 1976 presidential his background resembled that of his cousins and Many other Small town Southern growing up in Plains 1 guess was like growing up in any Small Carter in school you started out at one end of the building in the first Grade and graduated out he other end in the i2lh 1 used to fish a i placed a lot of basketball and baseball and ran a Little 1 liked to go out with All the at that time my dad and Granddaddy had a general merchandise from As Long As i was big enough to stand behind the Candy counter and make a 1 worked Here on the general which had been a funeral sold everything from dry goods to mules and made a fair but that prom increased substantially when Hugh Carter decided to get into the fish bait he started out with a wooden coffin left Over from toe funeral borne of Gray crickets and a Wash tub loll of Carter he Proba Bly Sells 38 million Worms a year Hugh packed the Worms and prepared them for shipping after he got Home from it was his first experience with big More or and he liked i even wrote my masters thesis at Perm on the Earth worm he they thought it was an inter Esting enough topic to put 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