Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the first prototype of the B-1 flew in 1974, critics charged that the advent of cruise missiles had made manned bombers less important. In addition, cruise missiles capable of being launched from the B-52 extended the effectiveness of that 32-year-old bomber. In 1977 President Carter canceled the B-1 project...
...Lewis is the first athlete. Other double exposures in a fortnight: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger, John Dean, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan...
...knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential Counsellor...
...G.O.P.'s lone hazard, the spirit of Dallas was surprisingly feisty, even belligerent. Speaker after speaker sharply berated the Democrats, eliciting war cries and hoots from a convention that seemed to smell blood. The best-received barbs, and the constant efforts to link Walter Mondale to the Carter presidency, reflected a conservative ideology that relished its moment of triumph within the party. In notable contrast to his acceptance speech in Detroit four years ago, Reagan endorsed the tendentious tone with an unusually sharp attack of his own. He called the election "the clearest political choice of half a century...
...Reagancomics in San Francisco. More than half the speech was devoted to defending his record. Then he set forth a particularly stark delineation of the choice between the Democratic plan for the future and his own, using a formulation similar to the sharp "war and peace" alternatives that Jimmy Carter envisioned on the 1980 campaign trail. Said Reagan: "Isn't our choice really not one of left or right but of up or down-down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more Government largesse ... The alternative is the dream conceived by our founding fathers...