Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Brahmin's Boston Brahmin, Richardson assures voters that he will have instant seniority upon reaching the Senate floor, merely by dint of the many connections he has made serving a number of Presidents--most recently Jimmy Carter--over the past three decades...
During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
...through dogged persistence, she occasionally managed to get her way. "I wanted Jimmy to fire [Health, Education and Welfare Secretary] Joe Califano long before he ever did," she writes. "I felt Jimmy could find someone who would do the job just as well and keep a lower profile." Carter fired Califano in July...
...nudge her out. She quotes Rumsfeld as telling Agee, "All right. So you piddled on the floor. But you don't have to have your face wiped in it. She's got to go." Cunningham charges W. Michael Blumenthal, former Bendix chairman and Treasury Secretary under Jimmy Carter, with spreading malicious gossip. She writes that Blumenthal remarked to Bendix Board Member Harry Cunningham, "Say, what's Agee got going there? Is he having some kind of mid-life crisis or has he lost all judgment...
...reviews are the centerpiece of a new daily arts and leisure page. The political writing of Washington Bureau Chief Albert Hunt is elegant and informed, and it inspires the same in his 35-member bureau. The paper opens its Op-Ed columns to liberals and gadflies such as Hodding Carter and Alexander Cockburn. As a result, the Journal has won a following even among its ideological opposites. This month a cover story in the partisanly Democratic New Republic praised the Journal as "the definitive newspaper of political economy...