The General was named director of the intelligence agency by President Jimmy Carter after serving as assistant Air Force chief of staff for intelligence.

And in those cases, the differences between the seven Bush-Reagan appointees and the four named by President Carter are stark.

Less than a year after he retired from the Senate, Mr. Mansfield, at 74, was named by President Jimmy Carter to be ambassador to Japan.

In 1976 he was named by President Jimmy Carter to the board of the Pennsylvania Avenue Redevelopment Corporation, serving until 1983.

He succeeded to the governorship after the previous governor, Raul Hector Castro, was named ambassador to Argentina by President Jimmy Carter.

A Long Judiciary Inquiry Judge Hastings was named to the bench by President Carter in 1978.

That year, he was named ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter.

But Judge Mikva, named to the court in 1979 by President Carter, insisted in an interview that "there's simply too much attention paid to that."

Judge Mikva said Judge Wald pledged to do that when they were both named to the bench by President Carter.

While striking down the "no deity" policy, Judge Williams, who was named to the Federal bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, let the other provisions stand.