EARLY TO RISE

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t`''7ahe Carter day otherwise is an exercise in engineering-
and will. It begins promptly at 6:30 most mornings with a
single ring of the telephone-enough to rouse him but not
Rosalynn fiom their double bed-and the brisk voice of an
Anny Signal Corpsman announcing the time, the tempera-
ture and the weather forecast. Carter showers, shaves, dress-
es, downs a glass of orange juice, inspects the crab apples and
Japanese magnolias outside, and repairs to his study off the
Oval Office, all within the first half hour of the day. A steward
serves him coffee at 7, and his secretary, Susan Clough, puts
on the clay's first classical recording-something soothing
from Vivaldi or Bach--at 7:15. Nothing else intrudes on
Carter's first 90 minutes of "quiet time"-not even the
bearers of the news that Uganda's Idi Amin had closed his
borders to 200 resident Americans or that the March SALT
talks had broken off. "If you're willing to pay-really pay-
you can do it," grins Powell. Not many try.
The time fills itself thereafter with the constant tug of war
between paper and people. There are daily quarter hours
with national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski at 8:30,
Congressional liaison man Frank Moore at 8:45, press secre-
tare Powell at 10:30; weekly meetings with the senior staff
and the Cabinet, and soup-and-sandwich lunches with Lance
and Vice President Mondale; twice-weekly CIA bri e fin s
and biweekly Congressional breakfasts-and regular retreats
into the study for the Sisyphean struggle with the in-box.
Carter's regard for a minute is like a miser's for a dollar. He
resists ceremonials unless they are "inspirational"-giving
blood, say, or greeting the Teacher ofthe Year-and bridles at
scheduling changes. Once, Hamilton Jordan commiserated at
how crowded Carter's daily calendar looked. "That's just the
latest one," Carter answered irritably. "I'll have two or three
more on my desk before the day is up."
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2MAY i77
A talk with the CIA's Stansfield Turner, Brzezinski and Mondale
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