JIMMY'S TALENT FILE

Only Jimmy Carter knew for sure whom he was going to pick for Cabinet-level posts, but as of last week the following ambitious achievers--all of them Democrats except where noted--stood high on his list for a job:

CHARLES L SCHULTZE

A prospect for Treasury Secretary . . . Age 52 . . . Member of Democrats' "shadow cabinet" during Nixon-Ford era . . . Senior fellow of Brookings Institution, Washington's liberal think tank, since 1969; also economics professor at University of Maryland, where he earned his Ph.D. . . . As Lyndon Johnson's budget director during years of Great Society and Viet Nam buildup, was one of earliest important advocates in Government of the new politics and economics of austerity . . . Argued that new programs should not be launched without careful forecasting of the economy's "fiscal dividend"--the difference between expected future growth in Government income and built-in raises in federal spending . . . Rapped Republicans for failure to cut Pentagon spending after Viet Nam . . . Scorns facile promises about reducing spending ("As long as people talk without being specific, it's easy to talk about big cuts") . . . Calls now for "a large dose of fiscal stimulation" through tax reductions.

Roman Catholic . . . Married, with six children . . . Known as marathon worker who can put in 18-hour days.

W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL

A top contender for Treasury or Defense . . . Informal but hard-driving chairman of Bendix Corp., Michigan-based conglomerate in auto parts, forest products, other fields (sales: $3 billion) . . . Age 50 . . . Born in Berlin, fled Nazis with family to China, arrived in U.S. at 21 in 1947 with $60 in pocket; worked way through University of California, making Phi Beta Kappa; got Ph.D. in economics at Princeton and taught there . . . Was U.S. negotiator in the Kennedy Round trade talks in the 1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority, can "cut through issues like a buzz saw" . . . Believes Nixon-Ford foreign policy slighted trade and economic considerations; urges a code of ethics for domestic firms and creation of businessmen's group to police practices of multinational companies abroad.

Parents nonpracticing Jews; he was baptized Presbyterian . . . Wife Eileen has Ph.D. in education; three daughters . . . Liked to gamble occasionally in student days (won the money for his wedding at Las Vegas), but now relaxes by reading (foreign affairs, economics), swinging a tennis racquet, skiing.

ROBERT V. ROOSA

Another Treasury candidate . . . A principal partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, influential Wall Street investment bankers . . . Age 58 . . . Phi Beta Kappa and Ph.D. in economics from University of Michigan; Rhodes scholar . . . Made reputation as clever financial tactician during Kennedy Administration, when he was No. 3 man at Treasury . . . Adroitly managed wrenching crises in international monetary system . . . Advocates long-range Government economic planning ... Has proposed permanent wage-price review boards to monitor key industries plus presidential authority to roll back wage or price rises when deemed excessive . . . Suggests "massive Government energy program" as noninflationary way to stimulate economy.

Presbyterian . . . Wife Ruth, an expert on Russian history and economics, teaches at New York's Briarcliff College.

HAROLD BROWN

Hot candidate for Defense Secretary . . . Physicist, president of California Institute of Technology . . . Age 49 . . . Raised in The Bronx . . . Breezed through Columbia (Phi Beta Kappa) in two years, got Ph.D. at 22, succeeded Edward Teller as head of California's Livermore Radiation Labs at 32 . . . Became one of fabled "Whiz Kids" in Robert McNamara's Defense Department had the most managerial authority of them all . . . Air Force Secretary in L.BJ.'s Administration . . . Expert in nuclear weaponry Member of U.S. SALT delegation since 1969 . . . Backs SALT, but says if the Soviets want an arms race, the U.S. will "run faster in that race for whatever distance is required."

Jewish; recently agreed to be "test case" and got into Los An-aeles' restrictive California Club . . . Two daughters . . . On tennis court said to be "very intense--as in most things."

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER

Former Defense Secretary and CIA director, now a candidate for both jobs . . . Age 47 . . . Brilliant and knows it.

Summa cum laude and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard . . . Ousted by Ford as Pentagon boss in November 1975 after complaining publicly about a Ford-imposed lid on defense budget; President disliked Schlesinger's continual lecturing on the Russian "challenge," was irritated by his noninterest in being a team player . . . While backing detente, Schlesinger argues for tough posture toward Soviets, is skeptical about Harvard Classmate Kissinger's notion that a web of common interests between Washington and Moscow will eventually tame Russians. He calls for modernization of strategic nuclear weapons, says conventional forces must be beefed up if they are to remain deterrent to nuclear attack.

Jewish-born, he had bar mitzvah in New York City but converted to Lutheranism . . . Republican . . . Eight children . .. Counseled both Ronald Reagan and Carter.

PAUL C. WARNKE

Dove candidate for Defense . . .

Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded like an "antiDefense Secretary" . . .

Nonsectarian . . . Five children . . . On executive committee of Trilateral Commission . . . Witty, extroverted.

BARBARA JORDAN

Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called on.

Was one of TIME'S 1975 Women of the Year . . . Single . . . Relaxes off-hours playing guitar and singing . . . Hopes some day to become U.S. Senator or Supreme Court Justice.

SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER

Candidate for Attorney General . . . As a circuit-court judge on U.S. Court of Appeals is ranking woman jurist in the U.S. . . . Age 51 . . . Born in Denver . . . Graduated from University of New Mexico and Stanford Law . . . For ten years practiced law with her husband in Los Angeles . . . Was special consultant to California attorney general on Colorado River litigation . . . Was appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1961, to California Court of Appeals in 1966, and in 1968 to her current assignment--one that takes her from Los Angeles through nine states (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Guam . . . Has generally liberal positions.

Often hikes in the High Sierra with husband and son, 23 . . .

Episcopalian . . . Once urged the American Bar Association to back establishment of "economy courts"--with the same court-employed lawyer representing both sides . . . Said she: "If we are to give people access to the courts, we must create some tribunal that the general public can afford to use."

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM

An aggressive, intellectual voice for equal treatment before the law . . . Could be Attorney General . . . Age 48 ... U.S. district judge for Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1964 . . . Also teaches sociology and law at University of Pennsylvania . . . Graduate of Antioch and Yale Law . . . Member of Lyndon Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence . . . Disagreed with majority of that body, specifically by endorsing nonviolent civil disobedience, without which "probably no major civil rights statute would have been enacted."

Married, wife recently returned to university to study architecture . . . three children . . . plays tennis . . . Episcopalian . . . Contends that rise in crime rate and court backlogs result partly from fact that authorities only recently began recording and prosecuting many crimes committed by poor people against poor people.

JOHN T. DUNLOP

Harvard economist and former Labor Secretary who is union leaders' choice to be rehired for that post . . . Age 62 . . . Educated at Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge . . . Has taught at Harvard since 1938; rose to dean of faculty in 1970,

Gruff, confident, opinionated . . . Respected by both labor and management as negotiator ("The way to bargain with a man is to reach over and grab his left testicle--and squeeze"). Has spent a day a week in Washington nearly every year since 1938, to offer counsel on labor matters. Used hard bargaining to fight inflation as head of construction industry's stabilization committee and as Cost of Living Council chief . . . Named Ford's Labor chief in February 1975 . . . Quit last February after Ford vetoed the Dunlop-backed common situs picketing bill.

Political "independent" . . . Married . . . Three children . . . Schoolboy tennis champ but now is workaholic.

JUANITA KREPS

Economist and vice president of Duke University, where she earned Ph.D Age 55 . . . Under consideration for Labor Secretary . . . If chosen, expected to press for such programs as job training for unemployed youth and equal pay and child-care centers for working women . . . Specialist in labor-force demographics and working women . . . Vice president, National Council on the Aging . . . First woman director of New York Stock Exchange, J.C. Penney Co. . . . Also on three other corporate boards.

Soft-spoken feminist, shuns the term women's liberation . . . Says she's "sort of old-fashioned," believer in women's obligations within the family . . . With Fellow Economics Professor Clifton Kreps Jr., has raised three children . . . Fancier of classical music and Duke Ellington jazz . . . Episcopalian . . . Politically liberal, but economically fairly moderate . . . Pessimistic about U.S. ability to reduce unemployment to previous levels.

JOSEPH A. CALIFANO JR.

Liberal Washington attorney . . . A leading contender for HUD or Commerce . . . Age 45 . . . Born in Brooklyn . . . Was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . . . Spent early 1960s rising fast in the Defense Department; became Army's general counsel, then Secretary Robert McNamara's top troubleshooter . . . As Lyndon Johnson's domestic aide between 1965 and 1969, developed Great Society programs in civil rights, education and antipoverty; also had a hand in economic policymaking . . . Was counsel to the Democratic National Committee from 1970 to 1972, winning court battles to provide equal broadcast time for Democratic leaders.

Has been Edward Bennett Williams' law partner since 1971 . . . Clients include the Washington Post and Newscaster Daniel Schorr . . . Catholic . . . Married, three children.

JANE CAHILL PFEIFFER

Storybook corporate career woman, considered for top job at either HUD, HEW or Commerce . . . Age 44 . . . Put herself through University of Maryland . . . Joined IBM as trainee in 1955 . . . In her twenties ran IBM's missile-tracking station in Bermuda . . . Took leave in 1966 to be first woman White House Fellow; worked for HUD Chief Robert Weaver. Returned to IBM as executive assistant to former Chairman Thomas Watson Jr. . . . Starting in 1972, served as vice president for public and government relations . . . Considered firm as well as charming.

Married in 1975 . . . Resigned from IBM last March: "I needed more time to spend on my marriage" . . . Is now a management consultant . . . Catholic . . . Calls herself a "rational liberal" . . . An Independent; played no part in Carter campaign.

PATRICIA ROBERTS HARRIS

Washington attorney in the running for HUD and HEW . . . Age 52 . . . Born in an Illinois corn-belt town, daughter of a railroad waiter, finished No. 1 at Howard University and George Washington University Law School . . . Has 30 honorary degrees . . . Taught law at Howard.

Poised and principled member of myriad commissions and civic groups . . . Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson as Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67, served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris, an attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission.

BOB BERGLAND

Fellow Minnesotan Fritz Mondale's choice as Agriculture Secretary . . . Age 48 . . . Congressman from a farm district since 1970 . . . Was prominent draft-Humphrey backer until H.H.H. dropped out, then switched to Carter.

Left University of Minnesota after two years when money ran out . . . Operates a 600-acre grain and grass seed farm in Minnesota . . . In 1960s was Agriculture Department's Midwest administrator of price supports, production control and storage programs . . . Lashes Earl Butz's laissez-faire policies . . . Believes in farm price supports, backed by stockpiling if necessary . . . Says that "the free market system ends at our borders--in the world market we must deal with governments" . . . Wants a protective tariff on imported sugar.

Informal, gregarious, outspoken . . . Lutheran . . . Married to a farmer's daughter; six children.

CECIL D. ANDRUS

Contender for Interior Secretary . . . Age 45 . . . Maverick who refused help of Idaho's Democratic machine when he first ran for Governor in 1966 . . . Lost then, but was elected in his second try in 1970 . . . Strongly advocated--and got passed--environmental legislation despite opposition of state's influential timber and mining industries . . . Knows Carter from Governors' conferences in early 1970s . . . Campaigned strongly for him . . . Son of a lumbermill operator, was elected to state senate at 29, served four terms . . . Married, with three daughters . . . Lutheran . . . An energetic sort, has been TV pitchman for Idaho potatoes, played celebrity golf (best score: 112), raced porcupines with other Idahoans . . . When other Western Governors complained about invading hordes of outsiders, Andrus declared: "We can't build a fence around Idaho, and we won't. People are welcome here."

BROCK ADAMS

Liberal Congressman from Washington State . . . Wants Transportation Secretary's job for 50th birthday present next month . . . Atlanta-born, grew up in Iowa and Oregon, graduated summer cum laude in economics from University of Washington ('49), earned law degree at Harvard . . . In Congress since 1964.

Witty, extremely popular with his fellow Congressmen, Adams is the House's foremost expert on transportation . . . Drafted and pushed through a plan for the Conrail system that subsidizes formerly unprofitable Northeastern railroads . . . Urges thorough congressional reform of airline regulation; wants carriers to be freer in setting fares . . . As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, has deftly negotiated precarious compromises between big spenders and conservatives . . . Episcopalian . . . Married, four children . . . Superb tennis player.

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