FILE - This Dec. 4, 1976 file photo shows President Jimmy Carter smiles as he listens to Bert Lance, foreground, his choice for Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, answer newsmen at Plains, Ga., conference. Bert Lance, a Georgia banker and close ally of former President Jimmy Carter who served as his first budget director before departing amid an investigation of his bank's lending practices, has died, Thursday, Aug, 15, 2013. He was 82.(AP Photo/Charles Harrity, file)