European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Energy and demand Jimmy and seeing Eye to Eye on an Opportunity to revive the old James the Man who will put the heat into Carters Energy program production m 70 72 74 71 demand protected demand no Energy ism two t9ee to on m eau Mienl sources Aji Wrbican pm mum Aji Wicen  Cimon cover fan by James Naughton new York times Richard Nixon once told an aide to never brine that Guy in Here and Gerald Ford dismissed him from the but James Schlesinger has a Pivotal role in presi Dent Carters administration because of the same characteristics of intellectual Zeal and moral Fervour that so discomfited the two Republican presi the controversial Energy policy that Carter outlined on Capitol Hill and that his Energy will have to justify was 8 product of a recent but close Bond Between Jimmy and As the two Are being called in the White the relationship Between the new Democrat in town and a lingering Republican is yet Cen trial to the scope and character of an Energy pro Gram intended to alter of National Carter and Schlesinger share a deep belief that Fossil fuels Are on the verge of exhaustion but Paradox there is moral Opportunity rather than apocalyptic threat in the Energy they see a White House official As an Opportunity to really kind of revive a lot of the old values of this country that have been lost things like ingenuity and the Bond is built on righteous Best reflected in he presidents exhortation to americans to confront the Energy Issue As the moral equivalent of the phrase was lifted from William the  and fed to the appreciative president by the scholarly the two men also appear to be linked by an almost steely indifference to political consequences that underlies the White House proposals and reflect what one official called about at age Schlesinger is in his fourth major assign ment in his third but it is the first in which his Sel Assurance and dogmatic viewpoints Are respected fully in the Oval office Nixon was unnerved when a Junior budget official in sharply a Pentagon weapon proposal in the presidents although Nixon directed the budget director to keep Schlesinger hidden away he relented a year later and appointed the new York City native chairman of the atomic Energy at his first meeting with Utility Schlesinger gentle i am not Here to protect your triple Bond rat Schlesinger was equally wont As director of toe new Yort Tomti Central intelligence Agency and As Secretary of de he dismissed one old hand at the Cia with the he tied to Ford fired Schlesinger from the Pentagon Post in reportedly after tiring of what Ford considered a Pedan tic a senior civil servant who observed Schlesinger and does said the difference is notable at meetings of the Ford the bureaucrat Schlesinger would address his remarks to the few Cabinet officers he regarded As intellectual Peers and never looked at Ford when he in the Carter the Only person  or looks at is the the official the respect evidently is when a dozen senior officials met with the president for a five hour appraisal of the Energy program before Carter Laid it out to the Carter and Schlesinger looked at one another and dominated the the admiration is not universally shared by Carters some contend that the Energy advisers re Liance on a secondhand his rumbled suits and his conversational citations from Winston Ben Jonson or the Bible Are but fierce Devotion is the Rule among those who have worked for Hes just David a member of the Energy policy said of the according to several Schlesinger and toe president heard but did not necessarily heed the views of each special interest group and somewhat to fashion a policy very like the Broad outlines they discussed last before Schlesinger appointment was one you Start making conf Suttons for political reasons in the Middle of the youre left with an Energy craftsman Only when it was did we sit Down and How is it going to play whether an economist by has enough political intuition to sell the program to Congress has begun to bother some White House Schlesinger allies have no april 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13