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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From a dismal 53%-to-16% deficit in July, the New York Times-CBS poll now places the President at 45% to 25% behind the Senator. Carter's approval rating in an Associated Press-NBC survey has risen to 24%, a climb of five points from a month ago. Better yet for Carter, this poll also disclosed that half of all Democrats now want him to seek reelection, a notable jump from...
Curran's words came as good news for Jimmy Carter, long bedeviled by unproven accusations of financial misdealing and even coverup. The disclosures of banking shenanigans that forced Bert Lance's resignation as Director of the Office of Management and Budget two years ago and finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last...
Milton Eisenhower knows that the political environment is a lot more complicated today than it was 20 years ago. "The whole system of electoral government is on serious trial," he said. He worries particularly about the fact that we in the U.S. are making politics a life time career. The search for "electoral immortality," he calls it. "Those in Congress know the causes of inflation," he insisted, "but the solutions are unpopular politically. They vote for reelection, not what helps the nation...
Eisenhower would like to see congressional terms limited and he is an advocate of the single six-year presidential term. Such restrictions might, in his view, restore a higher degree of courage to our process. "We should have had energy ra tioning three years ago," he said. "I mean the right kind of rationing that would cut waste...
...Chicago and Vladimir Zzzyd of Miami. Few have proved more zealous in trying to be the last personal name in a local telephone book than Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra, who has brought up the rear of San Francisco's directory for eight of the past 15 years. Several years ago, when he was just plain Zachary Zzzra, Zzzzzzzzzra discovered to his sorrow that he had been zapped from last place by Zelda Zzzwramp, and so he added another z to his name. Last year, as Zzzzra. he was infuriated when he lost put to Vladimir Zzzzzzabakov. This year, tie outztripped...