Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski believes, is probably advantageous to the U.S. and perhaps for East-West relations...
Others who have met Chernenko are less eager to rush to judgment. Former President Jimmy Carter, who also watched him at Vienna, agrees that Chernenko was Brezhnev's right-hand man at the conference, but feels he was by no means merely a subservient functionary. Chernenko was taciturn, Carter recalls, yet he was frequently consulted by his Soviet colleagues...
Other targets include former New York Governor Hugh Carey ("One simply doesn't understand what he says") and Jimmy Carter ("mean and vindictive...
...mayor and the 39th President clashed during the 1980 campaign. Carter badly needed a prominent Jew to pull in the Jewish vote, but Koch had his price: a substantial federal takeover of the city's Medicaid payments and a more active pro-Israel position in a hostile United Nations. Carter was forced to concede, and a grudgingly satisfied mayor set off to stump Brooklyn and Miami Beach, telling his aides, "It's amazing what fear will...
Jody Powell, who as President Jimmy Carter's press secretary once poured a glass of wine over ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson, now has found a more poetic means of revenge...