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...under such silent lands as these that the boundless riches lie, awaiting the power shovel and the drill. Energy developers first began arriving in droves in 1973, when OPEC hiked its prices fourfold and jolted the nation's oil and gas companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public...
After the DelugeNovember 11, 1980The analytical vultures of both print and screen have already picked the bones of the 1980 Reagan victory clean, telling us it’s a watershed in politics, it shows the nation’s anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, who elected...
...we’d feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...left-leaning loyalties were hard to sustain through the malaise of the late seventies. In the 1980 election, during my year as Crimson editorial chairman, in a final gasp of last-ditch leftism, we endorsed the maverick candidacy of Barry Commoner. Having criticized what we saw as the Carter administration’s dangerous and ineffective turn to the right in the aftermath of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we thought that endorsing the Democrat would be hypocritical. For our purity, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan...
Galbraith was a devoted Democrat and advised Presidents Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was a socially aware thinker who lamented the proliferation of economists who were “good at the blackboard” but did not apply their theories to real situations, a class of thinker that he called “esoteric,” according to his biographer, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Richard Parker...