Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every President from Kennedy to Reagan, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, is morally guilty. The names in any history book speak for themselves: the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chile; Lebanon; Grenada; and most recently, Nicaragua...
Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Jimmy Carter, was more sanguine. "It's too early to give up" on the international trading system, he argued, and the stakes are too high to do so easily. The U.S. would be losing a "tremendous amount" if it retreated to the narrow posture of protectionism...
...sees his role in a limited way: as a staff officer, skillfully condensing the arguments of the quarreling Cabinet secretaries and their underlings, then presenting the various action options to the President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does not consider himself a virtual foreign-policy czar. He has neither the desire nor the personality to pressure other high officials into agreement. Instead, by avoiding the limelight, Poindexter believes he can effectively work out compromises among his large-ego clients...
...blistering attack on the record of the Nicaraguan regime by the International League for Human Rights was based in part on a weeklong fact- finding trip to Nicaragua in February led by Patricia Derian, former President Jimmy Carter's human rights chief. It catalogs dozens of Nicaraguan violations, including torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea...
...incident involved a presidential tape and former Nixon Counsel and Convicted Watergate Conspirator Chuck Colson. This time, though, the President was Jimmy Carter, the tape was a carpenter's measurer, and the locale was a four-unit apartment building under construction in Chicago. Both men were participating in a project of Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President...