Word: camped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...
...over closed-circuit television. Despite the fact that Rosalynn and new Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan were publicly defending him, Carter conceded that he might have acted too abruptly. He also acknowledged that he should have invited more Republicans (and also Senator Ted Kennedy) to the reassessment sessions at Camp David. But he bluntly told the staffers that anyone who did not share his goals should seek work elsewhere. He had no qualms about the controversial evaluation forms passed out by Jordan...
...while public opinion in the East seemed to hesitate in reacting to the President's performance since his Camp David summit, but now it has taken a decidedly negative swing. The question is no longer whether Carter has strengthened or weakened his presidency, for it appears certain he has hurt himself...
...attractive, charming, intelligent and totally committed to Jimmy. People eat up that sort of thing." In the grueling midday sun she toured places like a Harlingen health clinic, where she was given a Nuestra Hermana en Salud (Our Sister in Health) award, and she inspected a Fort Worth Y.M.C.A. camp with programs for the handicapped, where she took her turn on the obstacle course. Said a bystander in Los Angeles: "Now why couldn't she be the President...
...Strasbourg, the spanking new European Parliament chose as its first President the elegant and brainy Simone Veil, 52, a former French Health Minister, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and one of the Continent's hottest political properties. In Lisbon, President António Ramalho Eanes abruptly chose as interim Premier Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, 49, a chemical engineer and women's rights advocate now serving as Portugal's delegate to UNESCO in Paris...