European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William Safire july 1977 Jimmy Carter trying to sell the Senate a dubious Bill of goods about his longtime the office of management r Bert the Georgia should excused from conflict interest  prom the president has because his Promise to sell he Stock has depressed its Market that is a the reason that National Bank of Georgia Slock has Slid from 16 to 11 this year has Little to do with the the Stock has Caus of the Rev Dalion that Lance Toler ated bad Loans of his the Man who inherited the men tins had to write off the bad Loans and Cut out dividend the truth is hat Lance departure for Washer Ikon did not cause his financial embarrassment on the now see How his willingness to carry questionable Loans As assets May have artificially maintained inc Price of his Carter is intimately familiar with lances on june Only a few weeks after borrowing million to finance the Purchase of his Lance brought Jimmy Carter to the manufacturers Hanover Hank in new York to meet Lew inc tank officer responsible Wilh Bruce Brougham far making the Lance surely a social Iraq xxx Noth ing to do with the former Georgia governor to Shore up his reputation As a Borrower Bui Jenkins was the Only banker to whim Lance look the new presidential candidate ban Kilimn who was governor Carters Highway also clip inns to have had nothing to do with the inf Siim of the teamsters Central states fund Money into his Bank in Early in curlers Star i Xian to at the the Lance Banks three person Trust department had no account Over million to for no apparent the politically sensitive Tett Msten fund put its million into ii Lando Bank i hut has since grown to j23 not my says the modest Lance bunk official want us to believe that at Antans John team liter employer i and Nuibert teamster fund initiated the Deal with King lances now but after Carters election on the very morning lances picture was front aged is the first Carter Cabinet likelihood Istas Lance met in his Bank with teamster pension fund executive director Dan John Spickerman and teamster lawyer William Nellis of Chica John Roche Lance sees no impropriety 5 a Cabinet helping to Tine up some future business with the fund that department says corruptly bankrolls Las vegas leaving Atlanta six months must have Tiad cause to worry about his House of cards he turned to another democratic Robert the Gogo Tost of the first National Sank of Chicago who has re placed his the late mayor Richard is the most powerful that must have been delighted to Hail out i Man who would be pan of the presi dents and who has ambitions to become chairman of the Federal on prior to his 11 trip to Abboud refinanced million manufactured Hanover that enabled Lance to own his Stock adding another him an Swers his phone first Chicago is moving aggressively inthe Atlanta i see a More sinister first Chi Abboud knows All about bad real estate and should have known that lances would shrink when the bad Loans were audited a hero was a buds Chance to go run Liscand death financial control Over the Man Clos est to the the Central which Alibi Percy and Proxmire do not is this was Thyl presidents most powerful Cabinet member Given a sweetheart assets include his to president Carter and Why he need that extra Money one source who had been close to the re financing passes the word that the stories of lances need for funds to meet interest payments May be off the track that the Abboud Lance loan is so favourable that it net Here we have a situation Man in charge of the nations Bobkier dangerously in Hock who go Home every night riot knowing whether to labor departmental teamster and Exchange commission his assurances to 45 people about Arti or the Bank examiners and first Eago stockholders will expose a swe Ethet or the Maxim whom he depends financial solvency will exert pressure for political Jimmy Carters broken Lance is a to ing Connie the Senate i Lee now glancing at his ing should Stop making an exception Start making an tin r Ter per tantrums can tarnish Carters image the presidents press conference lost week was moving at usual tranquil when suddenly ass Sassy Leader of the free world emitted a sizzling irrational the question was innocuous enough senator Pat Moyl a reporter had attacked the Ford and Carter administrations for Cov ering up the extent in which the soviets engage in electronic spying on our Tele phone old Carter plan to demand that the soviets withdraw their in top electronic equipment the president had been Well briefed by Bis aides with a evasive Bui instead of discussing soviet intelligence he began with a ferocious Side snot at Moynohan senator Moynih As you Baa been a member of the Nixon administration in the past in a very High official and Hes Well Able to judge knowledge that was Pas messed by that then he went into a holding pattern about six months ago i noted Here that Carter carried new York and the presidency last november on Moynihan coattails and wondered if the president would Over forgive the senator now we have the As Well As an insight into the Pri vate Jimmy into what goes on behind that this was the reaction of an elemental but beyond that it was a hair trigger other presidents have had their pet out kept their prom 196541 Lyndon Johnsons Pis Tols were always but somehow be restrained there was one notable at the Manila conference in october a re Porter asked Johnson to comment on an attack by Richard it was swelter he was and fired off an Iddis charge like a lightning later on air Force 1 a couple of Boob congratulated he looked up with a certain paternal were these morons his aides and i just nominated otherwise vivid descriptions of american statesmen were kept in the Back to the president and Moynihan we now know Carter is in toe same league with most of that if be will go after the Pitcher with a his resentment at Moynihan fur doing him a favor hardly merited the full particularly since it was inaccurate Moy Nihan left the Nixon administration in Long before the Kab installed its antennas on the Iglo and As Fords ambassador at the United nations he was not involved with intelligence Ive got a to the Moynihan symbolizes precisely that Seg ment of the democratic and the electorate at with which he feels least those like scoop Jack Trie coalition for a demo cratic who Are Domestic liberals and internationally militant  entering Carter was instinctively the obverse a Domestic conservative and International Passi vist after want u the conventional Wisdom that Vietnam utterly discredited any vigorous american world role haunt Ken Galbraith told this to Averu Harri who told u to Paul who told it the Rumor certainly Gol but with one major reservation it didst get to the american which magically Means the Congress As he witnessed Cia nominee Ted i sen bouncing Down the Cape the 40gun Senate Salute to Warnkey r nation As Salt negotiator except w was he the president must decided there was a conspiracy he was absolutely right the the Falcon was greatly exaggerated but there was a Way he to Neo Tralie this assault beat the drum Lor human thai would Dezarm life to All and sundry his stand against totalitarianism and  Cany any Price to if he read proverbs instead of Jimmy would have Learned be wicked flee what no Man suddenly found the whole soviet raving like denouncing the alerting the amp Fri tym Uppa to Ute present and Willy Tuy Iota ing him into the Jfe but dont blame shop and