Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them when they're up." He recently defended Bert Lance when he was down. Safire used to write speeches for Richard Nixon, but the fact that Nixon has been lately taken up by liberals for his advocacy of detente, Safire says, provoked a column calling Nixon "soft on Communism...
...Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential...
...only glitch in their tour came at the end, when Bert Lance, the Georgia politico who was expected to help the Democratic ticket in the South, announced he was resigning his three-week-old job as general chairman of the campaign. On the eve of the party's convention last month, Mondale had tapped Jimmy Carter's former Budget Director, who had been indicted and then cleared of charges of bank fraud, to head the Democratic National Committee. When a storm of protest blew up over the choice, Lance was shifted to an ill-defined political post...
...Jackson platform challenge was more troublesome. Jackson was annoyed at not being consulted about the Lance appointment, complaining to numerous groups, "For women it's Ferraro, for the South it's Bert Lance, but for the blacks and Hispanics, so far they can point to nobody or no concrete commitment." The Mondale forces easily defeated Jackson planks calling for the U.S. to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons (2,216 to 1,406); a real decrease in defense spending rather than a modest rise (2,592 to 1,128); and the elimination of runoff primaries when...
...human justice and basic human rights." It was vintage Jimmy Carter, and the convention crowd greeted his opening-night speech with respectful enthusiasm. But not every one had been certain that he would be so well received. Troubled by last week's controversy surrounding his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, some Democrats feared that Carter's appearance would only lengthen the shadow of his Administration over Walter Mondale's candidacy. Indeed, Carter had declined initial invitations to speak at the convention. Said he: "I wanted to be sure that the potential nominee would want...