Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's strategic position in its global conflict with Communism, which is the greatest threat to democracy, must be the first consideration. In the other view, the moral values that America stands for are more important, and ultimately more powerful politically. Much of the argument, however, is artificial. The Carter Administration tried for a while to put idealism first, by cutting aid to repressive regimes, but soon had to make exceptions for countries strategically necessary to the U.S. Conversely, the Reagan Administration came in with a policy of more or less indiscriminate support for anti-Communist regimes but soon learned...
...Neill, if Libya continues to foment terrorism, "I think the American people would demand that we go in again." The New York Times and Washington Post, whose editorial writers are often skeptical about military action overseas, voiced approval of the raid. The most notable dissenter was former President Jimmy Carter, who predicted that the raid would make Gaddafi "a hero" in the Arab world and a worse menace than ever. But, Carter acknowledged, "mine is one of the lonely voices." It certainly seemed to be; polls indicated that the military strike against Libya was about as popular with the American...
...would pit the Reagan Administration against a specific presidential order and substantial legal precedent. In 1976, after public discontent over the revelations of cia assassination attempts in Chile, Guatemala and Iran, President Ford issued an Executive Order forbidding the Government from authorizing the assassination of world leaders. Both Presidents Carter and Reagan have reaffirmed that...
...some, is more a moral issue than a political one. Critics of the Administration suggest that the Government's actions have undermined American claims of moral superiority, reducing the U.S. to the same level as the terrorists it condemns. If the Administration did intend to get Gaddafi, notes former Carter Legal Adviser Lloyd Cutler, it would be "the equivalent of a terrorist attack on a foreign leader...
...past two decades, Southern political leaders as divergent as Jimmy Carter and George Wallace have been talking about the need for their region to exercise greater clout in picking candidates for the White House. First, in 1972, Florida held an early-March primary. When Alabama and Georgia climbed / aboard in 1980, the result was what came to be known in the last presidential election as Super Tuesday. Over the past year, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee decided to stage primaries on the second Tuesday in March. Mississippi is expected to follow suit in the next week...