Word: carterisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Planted at the hotel entrance, a giant derrick greeted delegates with the sign, CARTER GOT US INTO THIS MESS. IT WILL TAKE A CRANE TO PULL...
Living in a universe that is totally circumscribed by the agonies they have endured, they know nothing whatever of the outside world. During Rosalynn Carter's visit to Sakaew three weeks ago, a journalist asked a group of Cambodian refugees: "What do you think of Mrs. Carter?" The reply: "Who is Mrs. Carter...
...President Carter's wife," the newsman said. The rejoinder: "Who is President Carter...
Shortly after the embassy takeover, correspondents began to feel menaced by the surging crowds, and many bought Iranian-style clothes to blend in. (One hot seller: a Korean-made khaki jacket favored by militant students.) Tensions subsided when Khomeini ordered his countrymen not to harm foreigners, but President Carter's suggestion at midweek that force might be used put correspondents on the spot once again. Back at the Inter Continental Hotel, the informal headquarters for foreign journalists, several Americans conspicuously began sitting with West Germans in the dining room and learning the words to O Canada. Others sang...
...exchange for mere paper. At the moment that Banisadr was posturing, U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was jetting to Saudi Arabia, to try to persuade Persian Gulf leaders not to cut their oil production in the months ahead. He also wanted to assure them that, although the Carter Administration had seized some $8 billion to $9 billion in official Iranian assets, their money was safe in U.S. banks...