Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They cite John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis and the Social Security compromise during Reagan's first term as success stories. Horror stories are more common, and include Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Carter's aborted arms control initiative in 1977 and his handling of the report of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
...their preface, Neustadt and May acknowledge that many of the failures they cite occurred in the Carter years...
...Some readers are apt to think us unduly hard on the Carter administration," they wrote. "We go back and back to the Carter years like somebody tonguing a sensitive tooth...
...next day, as promised, Begin sent Carter a letter on the subject. To Carter's dismay, it specified that the freeze would be limited to the three months of the Egyptian-Israeli talks. Carter rechecked his notes and, convinced that the misunderstanding would be worked out, asked Begin to submit a revised version the following day--after the Camp David accords were to be signed. When the new letter arrived, it was exactly the same as the draft that Carter had rejected the previous day. "Careful, prudent negotiators would have insisted on seeing the final draft instead of relying...
...some weeks thereafter, Carter tried to resolve the matter with Begin, but the Israeli leader refused to budge. To make matters worse, he announced in late October that existing West Bank settlements would be "thickened," or enlarged, immediately. Quandt regards Begin as the most able of the Camp David negotiators, the one who knew best "how to play the cards in his hands" and who was "meticulous in turning words to his advantage." Although he agreed to an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, he won not only a peace with Egypt but also a "comparatively free hand for Israel...