Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police had arrested 60 demonstrators, including former President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy Carter and 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman, in a November 24 occupation protesting the CIA recruiters. Eleven protesters were arrested the week before in another occupation...
Throughout the entire first period, Crimson netminder Jennifer White rested in the goalie box as B.U. failed to take a single shot. Freshman Suzy Carter, who replaced White after the first period, saw almost as little action. Halfway through the second stanza, the Terriers' fired their lone shot--and Carter had little trouble deflecting...
When he was working in the speech writing office, Doolittle would get assignments from Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, or Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. He would get ideas from talking to White House bureaucrats, and then submit an example. He says that Carter would look at the speech at the last minute and comment on it--usually "a long list of disconnected things" which often had nothing to do with the original subject of the speech...
...Carter took less interest in [speech-writing] than most successful politicians," says Doolittle. "He was not that good with a prepared text. He didn't have any charisma...
Doolittle says Laos gave him the necessary experience to work as a speechwriter for Carter. He says he was hired by the Carter staff because Press Secretary Jody Powell thought he could lie; when Powell looked at the references on his resume, he said, "This guy's listed all those people he was lying to in Asia--he must be good at it," Doolittle explains...