Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates. On Sept. 1, 1982, Reagan called for self-government by the Palestinians in association with Jordan and a freeze on Israeli settlements on the West Bank. The Reagan proposal was a consistent, intelligent next step in the Camp David accords initiated by Mondale's former boss, Jimmy Carter...
...could not do business and who vowed to re-establish American superiority over the U.S.S.R. The Reagan of Sunday night explicitly disavowed the quest for superiority and talked much more like a traditionalist who believed in building on the foundations laid by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, yes, Jimmy Carter...
HAMILTON JORDAN, White House Chief of Staff under President Carter...
...question, there is no agreement at all. The cases for and against debates begin with recognition of a simple fact: they are among the most popular programs television has ever put on. An average of 77 million people watched some portion of the four Kennedy-Nixon debates; the three Carter-Ford match-ups drew an average audience of 85 million. In 1980, 120 million took in at least part of the single Reagan-Carter debate. Preliminary estimates of the number who tuned in to the first Reagan-Mondale face-off are considerably lower, ranging from 70 million to 80 million...
...Landslide Winners Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Nixon in 1972 did not debate their rivals; Incumbents Gerald Ford in 1976 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 agreed to participate only because their campaigns were in serious trouble, and ended up losing the elections...