Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost two-thirds agreed with Carter's own analysis that America faces a crisis of confidence. But unlike the President, who blamed the aftereffects on Viet Nam, Watergate and the selfish narcissism of the American people, those polled pointed to more immediate problems -inflation and energy shortages...
...There may be a change in style from Andy. McHenry won't be as informal, but there won't be a change in the battle for world peace." While more restrained, Jewish leaders also expressed satisfaction with Carter's choice. Said Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress: "I suspect Carter is trying to demonstrate continuity of policy and commitment to the black community. I think that's reasonable...
...morality campaign of 1976, a Connally candidacy would have been almost unthinkable. But the pendulum of American political preferences seems always swinging, moving from a fear of an imperial leader to a fear of a weak one, from a desire for a moral President to a desire for a shrewd horse trader. So, as Johnson and Nixon begat Carter, now Carter could just conceivably beget John Connaly, if the horse-trading rancher can satisfy skeptical Americans that his steed is white and he will never come home with a spavined and one-eyed...
...children and seven grandchildren.* They are avid antique collectors, and their home, furnished partly from their travels and partly from carefully following estate auctions, contains screens from Bah', Persian carpets, eleven hand-carved doors, a marble dining room floor from a London mansion, plus a wide collection of Southwestern American...
...their makeshift shopping-bag luggage, pausing at the bottom to fold their hands and bow formally to the flight attendants. After a briefing in Khmer and Lao and the processing of health forms, the refugees were hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted on the pink sidewalk and simply gazed at their feet. They had journeyed several centuries in 19 hours...