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...Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that Califano had his biggest impact: he started the national crusade against smoking. That campaign has probably saved tens of thousands of lives over the years, but it sent the tobacco industry and its pet politicians into a rage. Carter fired Califano from the Cabinet, partly to mollify the tobacco interests but also because, inevitably, Califano was just too much an insider. --By John F. Stacks
...captain and No. 27 David Lingman fell to Stanford’s No. 23 Sam Warburg in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Senior Mark Riddell also lost a tight 7-6, 6-3 match, and though freshman Jack Li took Cardinal captain Carter Morris to three sets, Li ultimately dropped his match as well...
Speth meticulously chronicles decades of missed opportunities. As a Carter Administration official in 1979, he received a report signed by some of the most distinguished scientists of the day predicting that greenhouse-gas emissions would lead to a "conspicuous" warming by the end of the century. Even before that date, the warming was unmistakable...
Brzezinski, a native of Poland, spoke with the authority of someone intimately familiar with American foreign policy. He served as National Security adviser under former President Jimmy Carter...
...decade later, Huntington joined the Carter administration as a senior National Security Council official. But after serving on an advisory panel in the late years of the Reagan presidency, Huntington—who says he supports Sen. John F. Kerry’s 2004 candidacy—acknowledges that his days in the political world are almost certainly over...