Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Senior White House Assistant Hamilton Jordan: "When you work for Jimmy Carter, you don't have much time for reflection. You just plunge from one big thing to the next. Carter enjoys it. He takes a kind of perverse pleasure in all this activity...
During the drafting of the 1980 budget, Wexler held dozens of meetings with hundreds of Americans who told her about their favorite programs and spending priorities. Generally, she made no promises, bluntly explaining that the deficit had to be kept down. But for some groups she did more. When big city mayors complained about federal cuts in urban aid, she arranged for them to meet Carter. After that session, the Administration boosted a key urban program by $150 million in the 1980 budget and asked that $200 million be added to this year's appropriation...
...reassuring. But Shakespeare wrote the part as a playwright's nightmare of schemes gone bad, plots out of control. Apple remains blithe, unperturbed, not the sort of Machiavellian man you'd look towards to resolve the mess at the play's end. He comes off more like the big daddy of a commune in Vermont than Duke of Vienna...
...came up with a big first and second placing in the high jump despite the effort of Harvard's Mike Young, who had to settle for third...
...time Carter makes a mistake or looks unpresidential. They gird their loins for battle each time Carter moves to the right and junks budget luxuries like a decent health care program or money for urban revitalization. They gnash their teeth when he says "We are about to have a big breakthrough in the SALT talks that will end the arms race and help moves us towards my ultimate goal, a nuclear-free world. Amen. We will increase defense spending by $15 billion dollars to build more weapons. Amen." They chant each morning to get in the proper spirit, "Chappawhat, Marywho...