Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With his ratings plunging in the polls and the 1980 campaign almost upon him, Carter decided to return to his roots. His decision was fortified in part by Caddell's own polls. They reported that Americans had lost confidence in the future, and that it did not matter who was President because the country was spinning out of control. Carter decided to charge back into the national consciousness, said the aide, figuring that "a challenge like energy can be used to pull ourselves together"?both as an Administration and as a nation. The first step was taken Sunday night...
...loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also was not helped by his antismoking campaign. It upset Carter's supporters in tobacco-growing North Carolina, where cars are plastered with bumper stickers that proclaim: CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. Nor did the Georgians overlook Califano's long friendship with Ted Kennedy...
...waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what it meant to be excluded from the dining room of this very building, I shall never forget...
Indeed, something was needed. The staff Carter transplanted to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from his Georgia-based presidential campaign was from the start young, inexperienced and fundamentally disorganized. Worse, its members came to Washington with chips on their shoulders about the city's entrenched political establishment. Jordan himself refused even to meet most of the Democratic congressional leadership. "I'm sure I've met him," Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd loftily remarked last week. "But I've never had a conversation with...
Jordan is capable of brilliant political work. He drew the blueprint that got Carter elected. He orchestrated the successful campaign to get the Panama Canal treaties ratified. He has prepared a detailed plan of attack for the SALT II ratification battle. His authority in the White House has steadily increased and with that authority have come changes both on the surface and below, hence his recent pin-striped suits and more conservative demeanor. Says one colleague: "He is very serious about things worth being serious about. Like the President, he will not get intellectually stampeded. He has the strength...