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Caddell wrote a virtual blueprint for Carter's Camp David summit. In fact, Caddell had been trying to persuade Carter to refurbish his presidency since April, when he sent the President a now famous lengthy memo describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell...
Presidential aides in Washington said that Carter had been repeatedly told at Camp David that he needed someone of stature at the White House who had close contacts in top intellectual, political, diplomatic and financial circles. Donovan, who has known Carter since he was Governor of Georgia, was suggested for such a role by Sol Linowitz, chief U.S. negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (and a member of Time Inc.'s board). After a long talk with Carter at the White House, several calls from other Administration officials, and two days of personal deliberation, Donovan decided to accept...
...insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely, as he suggested in his address to the nation after Camp David...
Sawhill was one of the leaders invited to Camp David for the series of conferences to discuss energy and Carter's leadership problems. The starting point of leadership in any area, Sawhill says, "is to set priority goals-a few, a very few, overarching goals-that cover many of the competing and conflicting issues. That's the only way to gain a consensus...
...tough-talking Zuheir Mohsen, 43, who was both Military Operations Chief of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the P.L.O.'s Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired...