Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just this sort of recommendation-making and planning that Teeley enjoys about politics. An aid to former Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) starting in 1973 and a press officer in the 1976 Ford Presidential campaign. Teeley spent the off-years during the Carter administration at the Republican National Committee. There he worked under then-Committee Chairman William Brock devising campaign strategies that were to help bring about a Republican comeback in 1980. "When you're in the party out of power, things are a lot easier." Teeley recalls. "You can fairly attack the administration, take offense at their every...
...distinction between candidate and President may become more blurred if the recent trend of organizing campaigns earlier and earlier continues. 1984, according to Teeley will be the test year for the trends of 1976 and 1980 when the two long-shot candidates--Jimmy Carter and George Bush--made their reputations by heavy campaigning for the Iowa caucus, a full month before the opening game, the New Hampshire primary. Teeley predicts that the Iowan caucus will find all the candidates working the crowd, but foresees no new dark-horse candidates emerging. "Nothing dramatic will happen," Teeley says...
...Carter fails to rescue the hostages in Iran...
...fighter-bombers to blast the ruins. The fire and the fury represented a new American tragedy-the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants and the unstable, faction-torn government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally. It ended in the desert staging site, some 250 miles short of its target in the capital city...
...Carter in particular, and for the U.S. in general, the desert debacle was a military and political fiasco. A once dominant military machine, first humbled in its agonizing standoff in Viet Nam, now looked incapable of keeping its aircraft aloft even when no enemy knew they were there, and even incapable of keeping them from crashing into each other despite four months of practice for their mission...