European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On Joan nominated to head Highway safety is among scores of former Nader associates now in government naders raiders by Lee Mitgang associated press in the when they worked for Ralph Nader in makeshift offices in a crumbling victorian Harrison Theodore Jacobs and Lowell Dodge hardly imagined they some Day get a crack at reorganizing the but they and scores of other former Nader workers have found places in the higher reaches of the Carter administration and on Capitol for Nader and his legion of lawyers and student spearheaded by naders fought their consumer Battles strictly As now Many of the people who made their names fighting the system help run they insist that holding office wont dilute their consumerist but theres a associate director of the office of management and summed it up when youre of you dont have to Ace up to the consequences of your the Trade Ibe scope of you didst have to worry that some Cabinet member or the president was going to implement your none of the Nader Folk now on Capitol Hill moved directly from one Camp to he other except for Joan Clay nominated to head the National Highway traffic safety most made the transition first working for the Carter then in the changeover for worked at Nader s Center for study of responsive Law from 1969 to was the late sen Philip Harts chief of staff through joined car ters Campaign and worked on his transition All believe that their ties with Nader helped get them into one reason is because of Carters sym Pathy with the another is because Carter is Cost conscious and Nader people Are known As hard workers who can live within stoic being associated with int with out its some say they have teen of having a ant business of being naders inside although Wellford and junes fal 1977 at say Nader is just one of the Many voices they listen who once dug out corporate corruption in the South and now is Carters head speech says he is on the phone with Nader from time to sometimes seeking sometimes taking his a lot of people who Bear his stamp Are in the Carter adm Nistra but it int that Hes been laying plans to place his people into Federal As associate director of the office of management and Wellford is charged with engineering the much heralded Federal with another former Nader Peter Wellford will recommend to Carter which Federal agencies should be sex abolished for the Sake of Jacobs will work for Federal reorganization on the Senate Side and Dodge is doing related work in the Jacobs has known Nader since 1951 when they were freshmen at he was director of naders Center from the beginning of the Nixon years when we always viewed ourselves As working from the but always inherent was a feeling that something could be done from feeling Burnt out and needing a Jacobs left the Nader organization in his first govern ment As staffer for the House investigations was an easy transition since the com Mittee was chaired by former new York Congress woman Bella a vocal activist now he is a member of the Senate governmental affairs where he will cooperate with Wellford in the reorganization while Jacobs was in naders inner Dodge had a More and at strained relationship with heading an affiliated group called the Center Tor Auto safety from 1969 to in he took his present Job As special counsel for the House subcommittee on oversight in getting paid three times More to do what i was doing for Ralph might consider that a working Wilh the Congress is not what he id always criticized it for being political and too but some of my preconceptions have been if confirmed by the Senate As head of the governments Highway safety probably will have the most powerful administrative Job of any former Nader she had worked in the transportation department in the 1960s and had done legislative staff work on several in the As head of naders Congress watch she earned the repute which she agrees of being one of Washington Best already some in the Auto Industry have questioned her objectivity since she openly advocates such things As cars which Are crash worthy at 50 Miles per people can use any excuse they want to critic she id rather be judged on the i think i have gained a lot of respect on Capitol Hul the Auto Industry int the Only Comer for her some of naders people reportedly told her they give her three weeks to Settle then Start their Ralph  be doing his Job if he she says with a a soft spoken Rhodes had been involved in a Nader investigation of the agriculture department in a year later he examined corporate abuses in and in he and Claybrook conducted the Congress project that sought to evaluate each congressman he had gained a wide reputation As a Washington journalist by 1976 when the Carter people asked him to write speeches for the future Fallows later became Carters 1 speech Yean of fighting for change from the outside have left All of the former Nader people a bit sceptical about what they can do of the inside to change Fallows says that with his slight Access to Carter he Hopes to continue to work for the things he fought for so says its somewhat naive to say that be cause Joan Claybrook and the others Are that the government will change very substantially very Ita More Likely Well get More of the same for quite a the stars and stripes Page is