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The Baltimore City Council, 15 Years As Baltimore's Mayor and Eight Years As Gover­ Nor: More By Sandy Banisky and Doug Birch Sun Staff Wrttere ight to the end, William Donald Schaefer was tally­ ing his achievements: A $60 million surplus. A triple-A bond rating. More Rthan 10,600 memos: commanding his bureaucrats to fix a problem. Now. Nearly 40 years in public life, and Mr. Schaefer was still measur­ ing his worth by counting up the things he'd done. He wanted his successes numbered and heaped atop each other, a huge pyramid of triumphs, so we all could stand back and admire them. He ordered his staff to whip up a summary: "The Top 225 Accom­ plishments of the Administration of Gov. William Donald Schaefer." A few weeks later, he'd expanded the list to the top 390. He may be counting still. It was always this way, through his 16 years on the Baltimore City Council, 15 years as Baltimore's mayor and eight years as gover­ nor: More. Always more. Show them who's boss. Push and cajole and throttle the bums until you get what you want. Paint your name on all the signs. Invite the citizens to celebrate. "s That's government, to Mr. Schaefer's mind. That's leader­ ship. This week, William Donald Schaefer, 73, is packing up and walking out of the State House — leaving his mark on Baltimore, the state and our psyches. Marylanders got used to seeing that freckled dome of a head, a caricaturist's dream, everywhere, in every kind of goofball get-up. They tried to parse his sen­ tences, which could jerk and ram­ ble, clause piling upon incomplete clause. They braced for his scold­ ings. And they learned that when his jaw set and his cold blue eyes narrowed, he could whirl into a public stage By Sandy Banisky and Doug Birch Sun Staff Writers ight to the end, William Donald Schaefer was tally­ ing his achievements: A $60 million surplus. A triple-A bond rating. More Rthan 10,600 memos commanding Iiis bureaucrats to fix a problem. Now. Nearly 40 years in public life, and Mr. Schaefer was still measur­ ing his worth by counting up the things he'd done. He wanted bis successes numbered and heaped atop each other, a huge pyramid of triumphs, so we an could stand back and admire them. He ordered his staff to whip up a summary: "The Top 225 Accom­ plishments of the Administration of Gov. William Donald Schaefer." A few weeks later, he'd expanded the list to the top 390. He may be counting still. It was always this way, through his 16 years on the Baltimore City Council, 15 years as Baltimore's mayor and eight years as gover­ nor: More. Always more. Show them who's boss. Push and cajole and throttle the bums until you get what you want. Paint your name on all the signs. Invite the citizens to celebrates^! That's government, to a®&'^ Schaefer's mind. That's ship. This week, William Do: .- Schaefer, 73, is packing up and walking out of the State House — leaving his mark on Baltimore, the state and our psyches. Marylanders got used to seeing that freckled dome of a head, a caricaturist's dream, everywhere, in every kind of goofball get-up. They tried to parse his sen­ tences, which could jerk and ram­ ble, clause piling upon incomplete clause. They braced for his scold­ ings. And they learned that when his jaw set and his cold blue eyes narrowed!, he could whirl into a He was the Hero of Baltimore, accustomed to adulation. But by fc bis last term as governor, Mr. Schaefer was brooding in the State m House, bewildered and angered by low public approval ratings. MARK BUGNASKI/SUN STAFF PHOTO FromN page IEo dream too grand, newspaper columnist and veteran He believed in government — at a adversary of Mr. Schaefer. "We do time when the public was growing have better roads and more build­ wary of government's tinkering with ings and more stadiums under their lives. He insisted that govern­ Schaefer. But I think we've paid a ment take an active interest in al­ heavy price In other areas," such as most every problem; schools, crime, higher taxes and reliance on gam­ roads, welfare — as well as such bling revenue. ephemera as lagging spirits or poor Though some question the quali­ civic self-image. ty of Mr. Schaefer's leadership, not He had no fancy theories —just even his foes doubt that there was targets of opportunity. No ideology plenty of It. 1980 PHOTO — just a frantic desire to succeed. "Clearly, his epitaph is going to " a controversial loan And to do that he had to get people be that he was an activist governor," e of The Shadow. moving. Pronto! This instant! Now. Mr. Lee says. "He was willing to fight One loyal aide to Mr. Schaefer on 18 different fronts and expend summed up his governing strategy his political capital to win where he this way: "Ready, fire, aim." could. We'll probably never see an­ "I think that Governor Schaefer other governor with as many legisla­ always felt that the biggest abuse of tive successes. t power was not to use it," said former "The era of 'Do It Now' is over." state Sen. Howard A. Denis, a Mont­ gomery County Republican. 'Not a waffler' He did more good, said one Balti­ on more civic activist. He made more ho knew, back in 1955, mistakes. "He just plain did more." when Mr. Schaefer was Hours after the opening of Balti­ first elected to the Balti­ more's Harborplace, which drew more City Council, that dazzling reviews in national maga­ this unknown from West zines, an aide found Mayor Schaefer WBaltimore, thi s earnest character huddled in City Hall, scribbling. who couldn't glad-hand or back- Great day, she said. He shot her slap to save his life, would come to a permafrost scowl. "That already remake a dying city and dominate happened." he growled. "What the state politics? hell else is going on in the city?" "A workhorse," The Sun said in He wanted momentum. He its tepid 1971 mayoral endorse­ nagged and nudged and did things ment. "Not an inspiring leader." his own unpolitic way. The thin-skinned Mr. Schaefer The result, fans and critics agree, remembers it thus: They said I had Is that Mr. Schaefer will not be for­ the charisma of a dead cat." gotten. He was the only child of Tululu "Without question, he is the most and William Henry Schaefer, par­ Important political figure in the ents so devoted that they sent him a He was the Hero of Bal­ state of Maryland in the last 100 letter every day he was in the Army years," said Bernard C. Trueschler. during World War II. A graduate of timore, accustomed to Baltimore Gas & Electric's retired City College. William Donald Schae­ adulation. But by his chief executive officer. "He set the fer clerked by day at the title compa­ last term as governor, 1989 PHOTO agenda. He was not a creature cre­ ny where his father was a lawyer. By left) as Baltimore's ated by anybody. He was unique." night, he studied law at the Univer­ bewildered and an-"" 'olnt. In a hat Marylanders saw him on their sity of Baltimore. gered by low'public ap- id In the driver's front pages and television screens, After the war, Mr. Schaefer re­ day after day. decade after decade turned to his practice. But the law "fatings. Mr. — beaming, mugging, sneering, bored him. ichaefer increasingly cheering. He was devoted. That was In 1950 and again in 1954, Mr. clear. But what else motivated this Schaefer lost campaigns for the sought refuge in his most public of men remained a House of Delegates. But he won a State House office. mystery. seat on the Baltimore City Council "It wasn't until after I left that I in 1955, after Irv Kovens. the "Life is funny," he said. realized 1 never knew the man." said wealthy West Baltimore furniture "You can hear 10,000 Joan B. Bereska. who spent nearly merchant and political power bro­ 20 years as his toughest, closest ker, put Mr. Schaefer on the Kovens clapping, but the boo lieutenant. "He is the most intense­ ticket. comes in the loudest." ly private person I've ever known." On the council, Mr. Schaefer tramped through every neighbor­ Think-big mayor' hood, spending weekends driving through alleys looking for trash and |r. Trueschler looks out potholes, abandoned cars and partment heads each weekend. as far as renewing certain aspects of ifrom his Inner Harbor of- weed-filled lots. He carried City Hall Some reeked of sarcasm. "How urban Life — the downtown develop­ ifice and says: "Everything files in his beat-up car. He mar­ come I'm the ONLY ONE who can ment, etc.," said the Rev. William I see, from Camden Yards shaled civic groups to lobby for a ti­ see this pile of garbage?" he'd in­ Calhoun, of the Baltimore Interde­ to that old sewage treat­ dier, livelier city. quire. Bureaucrats learned to gauge nominational Ministerial Alliance. Mment plant near Little Italy that he "I had fun," he says. his mood by how wildly he scrawled "But, I would say he is a person who renovated, that's all him. He did Other City Hall pols had wives, and how deeply he pressed pencil is minuscule in his relations with that." children, drinking buddies, hob­ into paper. persons who did not always agree as Georgse Wash- There's the glass-and-concrete bies.
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