Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Garth, a New York campaign adviser who works mainly for Democrats, said his private polls show a strong anti-Carter sentiment developing among the electorate. If the nomination does not go to Ted Kennedy, Garth predicted, "then it's going to go to someone else"-but not to Carter. Historian James Shenton of Columbia University said, "Carter increasingly looks like a man out of his depth...
...Jimmy Carter prepared to take office in 1977, he received a memo from Pollster Patrick Caddell advising him to keep on emphasizing the open, anti-Washington style that had helped him win the election. In this way, the pollster said, Carter could turn his narrow victory margin into a broader mandate. The memo soon became known as Caddell's "style over substance" pitch. Somehow, Carter forgot that advice. But last month, when he began trying to rescue his presidency, he turned again to Caddell for counsel, and this time he followed...
...said in a speech he gave in England last November: "A stronger and stabler dollar is plainly in the interest of the U.S. and the world. These recent months have been instructive to all-a sliding dollar undercutting our own anti-inflationary effort, generating uncertainty at home and abroad, hurting growth...
...think you just inflate yourself out of a recession either." Twice this spring, at Federal Reserve System policy meetings, Volcker voted in the minority, against Chairman Miller, in favor of raising interest rates. By appointing him, Carter appears to be giving a sign that he will not dilute his anti-inflationary policies in order to stop an election-year recession. Said the President: "He shares my determination to vigorously pursue the battle against inflation at home and to ensure the strength and stability of the dollar abroad...
Hanoi, in effect, is trying to fill one pocket by emptying another. The Pathet Lao troops are needed in northern Laos, where Chinese-supplied tribesmen are smuggling rifles to anti-Communist Meo guerrillas. According to Western and Thai intelligence, the insurgents last month killed 200 Pathet Lao troops assigned to guard a new highway...