Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew we would have to work some double magic to have John Anderson pull ahead of both Reagan and Carter," says Patrick F. Lucey of his 1980 stint as the National Unity Party's Vice Presidential candidate, "but working for him was the only honest thing I could...
...Lucey stepped down as the governor of Wisconsin to serve as President Carter's ambassador to Mexico. Though he was initially criticized for not spending enough time meeting with American businessmen there ("I didn't throw too many cocktail parties for corporate representatives." Lucey explains), he was successful in negotiating an important natural gas agreement with the Mexican government...
...Carter's had been a failed presidency," he says, "and I felt that four years more of him would not be good for the country...
...hands in the power game, could sense the resistance. The White House, they knew, would again irritate the men on the Hill by emphasizing the areas of difference, the doubts and anticipated inflexibilities of Reagan. Men like James Schlesinger, the former Defense Secretary; Lloyd Cutler, a former Carter aide; and Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, challenged the briefers from the National Security Council. Strengthen and clarify the language, the old pros said. Get rid of the accusatory slogan "It takes two" on almost every chart depicting Soviet-U.S. negotiating positions. Of course it takes both...
Truman played the piano. Ford skied. Johnson rode horses. But Jimmy Carter, 59, had a more practical way of taking his mind off the pressures of the Oval Office: woodworking. Carter's down-home handicraft was on display last week at the highbrow address of Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan. The occasion was an auction to raise funds for the Carter Presidential Library and the Carter Center of Emory University in Atlanta. The auction, which netted $320,000, featured two pairs of ladderback hickory chairs handcrafted by Carter last summer. Anonymous buyers purchased one pair...