Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter. He's a good man, but he is ignorant and naive in international politics, so he falls into traps, such as this agreement. We see this agreement as part of his election propaganda campaign -nothing else...
...historic vote leads to a most important campaign...
...general election has been scheduled for May 3. Labor's Callaghan, 67, and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher, 53, have squared off for an election campaign that is already regarded as perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
...with a crisp but low-keyed assault on Callaghan for mismanaging the nation's affairs. "Never has our standing in the world been lower," she declared. "Britain is now a nation on the sidelines." She summed up Britain's needs in a phrase tailored to campaign-poster type: "Less tax and more law and order." In his scornful, witty reply, Callaghan brought down the House by skewering the minor parties for forcing an election in which they may lose heavily. "This is the first time in recorded history," he said, "that the turkeys have been known to vote...
Next day Callaghan went to see the Queen to ask for the dissolution of Parliament. Emerging from Buckingham Palace, "Sunny Jim" was his usual cheerful self. "I always look forward to a good fight," he said. The campaign officially begins April 7, the day Parliament will be dissolved, and it seems certain that a battle royal is in the making. "My troops are ready," said Thatcher. "They have been ready for quite some time...