Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original basis of U.S. power in Europe was military power, the strength to hold back a threatening Soviet army that was poised at the Elbe. Until recently, indeed, the chief European anxiety about the U.S. was that Washington might act rashly and blunder into an East-West crisis. Today the worry is that the U.S. has neither the military strength nor the will to keep its commitments in Europe...
...hastened to Fort Wayne. Jimmy Carter personally phoned the hospital three times to check on Jordan's condition and made plans to go to Fort Wayne this week. The President described the shooting as an "assassination effort"-a term that was immediately challenged as unsubstantiated, and a blunder at a time when calm and caution would have served the situation better. Added Carter: "It is ironic that this life would be attacked, because he has spent it fighting against the causes of violence...
Mondale's greatest weakness is that he doesn't speak up often enough. He has saved Carter from more than one foreign policy blunder, but now one senses that both are in over their depth. He values loyalty a little too highly, and perhaps he fears that if he makes too much noise Carter will send him to the little cell in the bottom of the Executive Office Building where all the past vice presidents have been locked...
...Yugoslavia's continuing independence. Neither the Administration's expressions of sympathy and support for the country's new leaders nor the presence of the U.S. delegation headed by Vice President Walter Mondale could erase the widespread feeling that Carter had committed yet another foreign policy blunder...
...million miles on 85 trips, 34 of them abroad. It was mostly physical fatigue, aggravated by a chronic bad back that led him to announce in April 1978 that he would not serve a second term even if Carter were reelected. That characteristically forthright declaration was a tactical blunder of major proportion. It instantly made him a lame duck, a man presumably looking forward to getting out, and therefore at a disadvantage with those who were trying to get around him or undercut...