Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They don't have the same responsibilities. We're expected to learn our lines, get the reporters steadied down, train the campaign managers and press secretaries, put up with the fellow who shows up with the sandwich sign and the Uncle Sam suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
...increases its arsenal to counter the growing Soviet threat. To a significant degree, it has been the clarity and force of Jones' arguments that transformed these hearings into a wide-ranging analysis of national defense needs. The Jones touch was also evident in a successful campaign against the Office of Management and Budget; OMB wanted to limit military pay raises to 5%, but Jones got 7%. He has been equally persuasive at the White House, where he helped sell Jimmy Carter on the MX mobile ICBM...
...fight over the B-l supersonic bomber. Carter canceled that project in June 1977, when ex-Bomber Pilot Jones was Air Force Chief of Staff and the plane's leading advocate. Carter's surprise decision shook the Air Force. Its generals immediately began talking of mounting a campaign in Congress to save the bomber and they looked to Jones to lead the attack. Jones concluded instead that such a campaign would have almost no chance of succeeding. "That was an agonizing decision," he recalls today. "Maybe we could have made a better case, but the President had made...
...Remember that I have known you and loved you and Chicago longer." Indeed, Byrne got her start in Chicago politics as a campaign organizer for John Kennedy in 1960. Her office, in fact, is decorated with three photos of J.F.K. and one of Robert Kennedy. She does not display a picture of Jimmy Carter...
...forced Bert Lance's resignation as Director of the Office of Management and Budget two years ago and finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last March he handed that touchy job to Curran, a cautious, scrupulously methodical former U.S. Attorney from New York, who also happened to be a Republican...