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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have indicated my support for Walter Mondale because my experience of working with him in the Carter Administration convinced me that he would make a good president. It would be hypocritical to hide that conclusion. But as a professor. I must feel as free to criticize his positions as I do to offer ideas to anyone, including the current administration. Moreover, I feel that the amount of time devoted to such concerns must not detract from my teaching and research. These limits are important, and are not caught by the caption that you used. Joseph S. Nye Professor of Government
...should South Africa be considered important here? First, there are the contradictions in U.S. foreign policy. During the Carter Administration, a policy of sanctions and limits on U.S. investments was imposed, and is considered to be one of the reasons for the growth of Black trade unions in South Africa. Although Jimmy Carter's policies have since been denounced as somewhat shortsighted, the Reagan Administration has gone further, taking an almost Orwellian line. At the beginning of his presidency, Reagan announced that a policy of so-called "constructive engagement" would make for a greater shift in South African policy towards...
Hard liners have greeted the two Soviet actions as typical of Soviet crisis-making politics, saying that they resemble the way in which Krushchev fueled the Berlin crisis in the '60s. As Zbigniew Brezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, reportedly said last week, the hard-liners have counseled the Administration to "stay cool and on course...
...gave the keynote address at the GOP national convention. He served two and one half terms before going on active duty in the Pacific. After the war he returned to public life and was one of the first to use the strategy that Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and perhaps Mondale have used so effectively. He traveled constantly, speaking to anyone who would listen...
...replaced numerous political second-raters and former industry lobbyists hired by his predecessor, Anne Burford, with experienced Government operators. He has restored morale among EPA employees and pleased the White House by getting the agency off the nightly news. Says William Drayton, a top EPA official in the Carter Administration, who formed the Save EPA Working Group to counter the Reagan Administration's attacks on the agency: "Bill Ruckelshaus has given EPA back its sense of self-respect...