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Whether Carter's blast at Big Oil will be as effective in saving his mergy program as Kennedy's was in forcing a temporary rollback of steel prices remains to be seen. The attack was so free swinging that it probably amounted to overkill...
Beyond the business community, however, there is a question whether Carter's blast at the oilmen will help him or hurt him with two other groups: the Senate and, even more important, the public at large. Despite repeated warnings about the energy crisis, impassioned presidential statements about energy conservation being "the moral equivalent of war" and reams of statistics about the nation's gluttonous consumption of oil and gas, nothing seems to have persuaded the public that things are that bad. But casting the oil industry as the chief villain will not necessarily persuade people that the energy...
...furor continued, Carter seemed pleased by what he had wrought. An aide described him as "very satisfied" with the jolt produced by his press-conference blast. Having been criticized for being too gentlemanly in supporting his energy program, he was suddenly under fire for putting on the 8-oz. gloves-and seemed to relish it. Thursday night, only hours after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door...
Only hours after issuing his scorching televised blast against oilmen, President Carter last week dropped in on steel executives meeting with his aides in the White House and gave them a far different message: international trade laws will be enforced. That pledge, mild as it might seem, came a few days after European and Japanese steelmakers had informally offered to restrict exports to the U.S., and it gave American steelmen some assurance that one of the nation's basic industries might get a little relief...
...same thing against Yale in two weeks? That would be a blast...