Like some last-minute Christmas shopper scrambling to get it all done in time, Jimmy Carter managed to meet his deadline: he got his full Cabinet named by Dec. 25. The final announcements came last week in three televised presentations at Carter headquarters in Plains, and the biggest of the "surprises" so often forecast by the President-elect's aides was that there were so few surprises. With 18 top jobs filled, including all twelve Cabinet positions and the main economic and national-security slots, it was clear that the man who had campaigned as Mr....
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