Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's leadership is in trouble, and the Bert Lance affair is only one symptom...
...made them an issue in the campaign, often with moralistic promises to do better than they had ("I'll never lie to you"). These legislators and bureaucrats are not displeased to see Carter set back, but many of them also worry that his mishandling of the Lance affair shows that he is more isolated than is good for the country...
...Lance affair has been diverting Carter's attention from his many other problems. His foreign policy is at a critical juncture and in much jeopardy. His hopes for engineering a peace in the Middle East have been further frustrated by the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians in Lebanon; his attempts to forge a new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviets appear stalled (see THE WORLD). His one breakthrough has been the Panama Canal treaty, but conservative opposition to it has been building. Hoping to counter some of the setbacks, the White House announced last week that Carter...
...domestic matters, Carter was so distracted by the Lance affair that he had to put off his plans to submit his tax-reform proposals, which he had planned to send to Congress next week; they will be delayed for at least another week. Meanwhile, an emboldened Senate was knocking holes in Carter's energy program, which had sailed through the House almost intact. The Senate Finance Committee dumped Carter's proposed penalty taxes on gas-guzzling cars in favor of its own bill to ban them outright, starting in 1980 with those getting less than 16 m.p.g. Next...
...these problems were aggravated by the Lance affair. Republicans insisted that it had done lasting damage to Carter. Outlining the main themes of the G.O.P. attack on him in 1978 and 1980, National Chairman Bill Brock declared: "There doesn't seem to be a game plan or a theme. Foreign policy lacks coordination. Domestic policy has yet to have a pattern. His proposals are rhetoric, not specifics." House Republican Leader John Rhodes complained that "somehow this Administration has, in a very short time, appeared to lose its moral nerve." Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker was preparing what he called...