Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADMITTEDLY, this is a very convoluted and shady tale. But it reveals just how President Carter's 1979 wild deregulation and the Reagan Administration's flaccid anti-trust prosecution efforts have combined to produce exactly what both Administrations said they would not--vicious interboardroom wars instead of increased oil exploration...
...Justice Department to throw its weight behind what is a largely spurious charge is nothing short of irresponsible. In a speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse discrimination charges. Her attack is well grounded--the Administration has sided with whites claiming reverse discrimination in suits in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans in addition to the Boston and Birmingham cases...
...Boots, by Anthony Carter...
Next thing we knew, George McGovern, the son of a pastor and an obvious chip off the old block, was running (badly) for President. Jimmy Carter (who made it) and John Anderson (who did not) were virtually lay ministers before and during their political careers. Now we are inundated with Presidents and candidates who have a strong evangelical tinge or background. Both Walter Mondale and his wife are the children of preachers. Gary Hart, who once planned to become a minister, comes out of deep Bible country in Kansas, attended a religious college, then went on to the Yale Divinity...
...people are rightly worried about Presidents' taking their cues from on high. Woodrow Wilson's fervor sank his marvelous ideas about peace. Jimmy Carter's conviction that he had a special relationship with God and could get answers through prayer instead of the National Security Council may have been the biggest cause of his ineptitude. Reagan is at his worst when he is thumping his Bible and counting God among his Cabinet. He had best heed some old advice. "I am concerned to know not whether the Lord is on my side," said Abraham Lincoln, "but whether...