Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Supreme Court considered the issue in May, but ruled federal laws defending privacy did not apply, according to Stephen A. Carter, president of the GSA. The state attorney general then issued subpoenas on new charges, but decided last Thursday not to prosecute...
Instead, he had to look Presidential and he was trapped by his own lack of intellectual vigor as well as a singular lack of experience in defending his government rather than attacking someone else's. How much longer could be retain credibility by dumping every failure on the Carter Administration when he has run the show for nearly four years? How Presidential could he look by rationalizing his every gaffe by blaming Congress? Not very, and Reagan was caught in his own Catch...
...heat over his remarks increased, Reagan and his aides tried to put them in a softer light. After complaining that his comments on intelligence deficiencies had been "distorted" by reporters, Reagan telephoned Carter with what presidential aides called "an explanation." But by complying with Carter's request that the call be made public, it amounted to a rare apology from Reagan. What Reagan had really intended, an aide said, was to refer to "a decade-long decline" in intelligence capacity. Reagan told Carter that he did not blame him for the embassy tragedy The flurry over Reagan...
...warning had been made before the latest bomb attack-a fact that made especially feeble Ronald Reagan's attempt to blame the lapse in security on cutbacks in CIA operations before he took office. Although there was a steady reduction in intelligence operations through the mid-1970s, President Carter began beefing up the agency's budget...
...Jimmy Carter appointed 265 lower-court judges, including 41 women and 38 blacks, while Reagan has had only 150 such openings to fill (his selections so far include 14 women, two blacks). Courts-of-appeals judges appointed by Democratic Presidents outnumber G.O.P. appointees 70 to 58, though Reagan still has twelve unfilled appointments with which to close the gap. Some appeals courts are completely out of sync with the top court. The Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, for example, had 27 cases reviewed by the Supreme Court and only one affirmed. Moreover, some state supreme courts have begun to interpret...