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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election campaign, served briefly as Under Secretary of Commerce in the Ford Administration and in 1976 helped Ford defeat Reagan for the Republican nomination. As Ford's campaign chairman in the late stages of the race, Baker waged an aggressive fight in a losing effort against Jimmy Carter, impressing the Republican Establishment with his energy, acumen and cool efficiency...
...Rosalynn Carter. I am not Pat Nixon or Jackie Kennedy. Everybody does it differently. I discovered I would find it difficult to just sit here and not do anything except entertain. For me, having a goal is very important . . . I think you have to let a lot of things roll off your back; I was not able to do that in Sacramento or here at the beginning. But if you get a sureness about yourself and what you can do, you just go ahead...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were a couple with shared goals, philosophies, values, tastes and, once a week, on the presidential schedule, a working lunch. Some say she should have been President because she was more realistic about the world than her husband was. There is little doubt that she was the President's No. 1 adviser, confidante and source of encouragement...
They saw an American carrying a torch, running across America. But also, it may be, they saw an American running out of a long Spenglerian gloom: heading west for California, toward the light. Running away from recession, Americans might almost subconsciously have imagined, away from Jimmy Carter's "malaise," away from gas shortages and hostage crises and a sense of American impotence and failure and limitation and passivity, away from dishonored Presidents and a lost war. Away from what had become an American inferiority complex. Away from descendant history. Running away from the past, into the future. Or away from...
...benefit of all the people. But as the nation lurched through the Viet Nam years, through Watergate and double-digit interest rates and inflation and the hostage crisis, the national confidence in Government sank until it reached only a little more than 20% in the last year of the Carter Administration. Since Reagan took office, the figure has been rising steadily. It now stands at ! between 40% and 45%, not an overwhelming endorsement of the Government, but surer. In his latest survey, Yankelovich found that as of December, 73% of Americans believed that "things in the country are going very...