Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Georgia P 84 Glenn is well organized, and Mondale has ties to Jimmy Carter. Jackson hopes to grab black voters, who represent 20% of the total. Hart, whose organization had just one phone last month, is opening new offices...
Caddell went on to become a trusted adviser for Jimmy Carter. Sometimes his advice went badly awry. It was Caddell who urged President Carter to deliver his controversial 1979 "malaise" speech, which suggested that the nation was gripped by despair and self-doubt...
Vice President Mondale had vociferously objected to the speech, arguing that it was both wrongheaded and politically unwise. Confident that voters responded well to negative campaigns, Caddell in 1980 urged Carter to keep attacking Ronald Reagan as a racist and warmonger. The strategy backfired...
...trade sanctions as a tool of foreign policy has almost invariably stirred up political storms. When Jimmy Carter banned most grain exports to the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, American farmers were outraged, and Ronald Reagan dropped the embargo in 1981. Next year Reagan slapped sanctions on sales of technology and equipment to the Soviets in an effort to slow construction of their natural gas pipeline to Western Europe. But American businessmen and West European governments protested so strongly that the President relented and ended the restrictions after five months...
Though he lifted Carter's grain embargo, Reagan opposes any limits on his Administration's right to impose trade sanctions. Warned Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, who voted against the measures curtailing presidential power: "The Administration would consider this to be so great an intrusion into the foreign policy area that it is highly likely to result in a veto...