Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope we will be spared having the Carter-Mondale Administration blamed for all of our ills...
...embrace also reinforced outdated expectations that its members would vote as a bloc. "The fact that people expect labor to deliver a unified vote is ridiculous," says Sam Fishman, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO. In 1964, 73% of labor households voted for L.B.J.; by the time Jimmy Carter ran for re-election in 1980, the Democrats' share of the union vote had dropped to 50%. "I don't even read the stuff they send me," says Robert McConnachie, a Reagan sup porter who belongs to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Avon Township...
Reagan's stand-tall image also held appeal. When Geraldine Ferraro asked workers in a Belvidere, Ill., Chrysler plant why they planned to vote for Reagan, they said they feared Mondale would reinstate the anemic foreign policy of the Carter Administration. Says Fraser: "The macho factor was important...
...Rockefeller Commission, impaneled to investigate intelligence abuses, discovered one of the reasons in 1975 when it unearthed a 21-year-old secret agreement under which the Justice Department gave the CIA discretion to conceal crimes by its own agents. President Gerald Ford abrogated that agreement in 1976. When the Carter Administration took over, Attorney General Griffin Bell also took a tough stance. "Neither the CIA nor the public at large is well served by hiding cases of successful spying," he later explained...
...votes had been tallied. At ABC, which had vowed in advance to practice "good citizenship" and restraint, Peter Jennings announced a Reagan victory 13 minutes after Rather. NBC, which transformed the rules of political reporting four years ago by proclaiming Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter while much of the country was still voting, responded to critics by delaying Tom Brokaw's victory decree until 8:30 p.m. At that hour, voting remained in progress in 26 states. Cable News Network abstained from predictions but nonetheless reported as news the projections made by its three bigger rivals. Politicians...