Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have over carpenters. And if carpenters are dilatory, the kitchen is inconvenient; if the Commander in Chiefs employees are dilatory, people die." The New York Times's William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, called Reagan's remarks on the bombings "even more pusillanimous than Jimmy Carter's protracted hand-wringing at the seizure of hostages in Tehran." If Reagan "does not have the means or guts to defend our embassy," contended Safire, "he should have the good grace to close it down." Editorially, the Wall Street Journal warned that "unless someone is held accountable this time...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's words, "soft on Communism." The risk of such a backlash, significant in any election, would have been compounded in this race by Reagan's remarkable ability to maintain a monopoly on flag and patriotism--and his repeated attempts to associate Mondale with the Carter Administration's perceived inability to adequately stand up to Soviet expansionism, most notably in Afghanistan...
...Soviet decision to publicly mince their words: as Assistant Professor of Government Mark R. Beissinger, who teaches a course on contemporary Soviet politics, points out, "as much as they publicly protest Reagan, the Soviets are not overjoyed either with Mondale." They too remember the days of Jimmy Carter, whose vigorous human rights campaign and unusual arms control maneuvers irked them. Mondale may be more willing to talk to the Russians than the current President, may support the cancellation of the controversial MX missile and B1 bomber and advocate a major down-scaling of defense expenditures...
Ashton B. Carter, research fellow at the Kennedy School, took a more positive view of the talks. He said Gromyko was making a diplomatic concession by agreeing to speak with Reagan at all. Gromyko's decision shows that the Soviets are more interested in achieving arms reduction than participating in American politics...
...more enduring impact than the little magazines of political and literary opinion. At the 70-year-old New Republic, Owner Martin Peretz likes to say, "Our circulation is only 97,000, but it is the right 97,000." Among the magazine's subscribers: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Geraldine Ferraro and Edward Kennedy. Traditionally, the opinion magazines have preached to the converted, offering the dependable pleasures of a party line. But since Peretz bought the liberal weekly in 1974, he has guided it to enhanced revenues and much heightened influence by making it resolutely unpredictable. While proclaiming itself...