Word: callaghan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Callaghan and Carter set out for Newcastle early Friday morning, followed by two planeloads of reporters. Carter seemed to be running for office all over again and, as always, was a politically-minded dresser. The blue cashmere suit he wore was made from a bolt of cloth that Callaghan had given Carter when the P.M. visited Washington in March. The discreet gray pinstripes are formed by the repetition of Carter's -and Callaghan's-initials (see sample at right). Carter no sooner arrived at Woolsington Airport near Newcastle on this cool and sometimes cloudy day than he plunged...
...acceptance speech, the President surprised and delighted the crowd of 8,000 by beginning with a phrase in the local dialect: "Ha'way the lads," a popular cheer for the local soccer team. Said Callaghan afterward: "I don't know where you picked that up from, but I tell you that you couldn't find a way more quickly to the hearts of our people." Accepting his new privileges, Carter mentioned the name by which people of the region are known. "I'm glad to be a Geordie," he said -and the crowd roared...
...went that way for the President all morning and into the afternoon. Thousands lined the streets as he and Callaghan drove by in the Prime Minister's black Daimler sedan. Hundreds pressed themselves on the American President at every stop. Old Carter campaign posters and even a couple of bright new Confederate flags mysteriously appeared...
Carter reveled in it all, while Callaghan hoped that some of the good will for the Yank would rub off on him. Was Carter campaigning for Callaghan? "Absolutely not," said Press Secretary Jody Powell. Perhaps. But by the end of their five hours in the Newcastle area, Callaghan was working the crowds, pressing the flesh with both hands, beaming and performing. The next day he even wore his own J.C. pin-striped suit. The P.M. had learned a lesson -from a master...
BRITAIN remains a problem child, beset by just about every possible economic ill: falling productivity, high inflation (15.1% in 1976), a dismally low growth rate (1.5% predicted for 1977), and a currency that is only a shadow of its former self. Still, Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan and his predecessor Harold Wilson have managed to pull the country out of even graver conditions, and the increasing flow of North Sea oil may yet rescue Britain from its present economic poorhouse...