Energy: MR. ENERGY: DOING THE DOABLE -AND MORE

Though he is a big-city boy who was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, James R. Schlesinger has the air and craggy looks of an American woodsman—aloof, self-contained and utterly confident that he can master whatever emergency may arise. He explains quite simply his willingness to take on the most difficult but also most challenging task that the Carter Administration could give him: "Any time the President of the United States asks one to do a job that's doable, it's one's obligation to do it." And Schlesinger is quite convinced that his job...

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