Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Budget in Brief [to that which President Ford will be submitting]. We are already consulting with the leaders of the budget committees in the House and Senate, as well as other congressional leaders, so that we can move rapidly in trying to make the first budget in my Administration answer the questions that I've raised-to fulfill the promises I've made...
...identified 20 priority targets for organization and have liaison teams to go into the departments after the election. The question is whether the teams should begin before you have appointed the new department Secretary. There is a strong case to be made that we should wait." Carter's answer, scribbled in blue ink in the margin, was crisp and clear: "We won't wait. If leader is identified, good; if not, let's move...
...turned-off mood. Looking back on many of the '"issues" that dominated the headlines-ethnic purity, the Playboy interview, Clarence Kelley's valances, the Eastern Europe gaffe, Ford's finances-it's hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter's "fuzziness," Ford's fumbling-it is endlessly insisted on. In Playboy, Carter noted that local newsmen often asked him good questions on the issues, "but the traveling press have zero...
...field of view. It takes Murph a full ten minutes to find his way back on stage, and when Joey, his curiosity rightfully piqued, grills him as to what could have occupied him for so long in the middle of the desolate night, Murph fails to provide an adequate answer. Not that the audience cares much. But it's kind of annoying to be faced with evidence of writer's block in a finished production...
...answer arrived at was a resounding no, which, in combination with the fact that the temperature will no doubt be hovering around the point at which you never think I'm dressed warmly enough, is why I suggested the other night that it would be to your benefit to stay home and miss this...