Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President flew back to Washington, a high-level task force assembled at the State Department to ponder appropriate U.S. countermeasures. There was general agreement that the Administration should not do yet another about-face on the grain deal, since Reagan had criticized President Jimmy Carter's embargo and a second one would virtually eliminate the U.S. as a credible trading partner. The various courses of action considered ranged from U.S. support of expected retaliation by airline pilots all the way up to a postponement of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks, scheduled to resume this week in Geneva...
...Jimmy Carter suggested that he might have greatness in him, a quality that historians have not yet detected. Lyndon Johnson once looked into the face of a young black admirer and told friends later that he could tell the lad felt he was in the presence of "the Lord God Almighty." L.B.J. proved all too mortal...
...lost Central America?" Tufte marvels that the Reaganites have successfully persuaded their Democratic rivals, Washington insiders and "the 50,000 people who matter" that the Reagan people "are really tuned in to America," even though, in polls measuring how well he is doing his job, Reagan consistently ranks with Carter among the lowest of postwar Presidents...
...decision, Iran has agreed to payments of $896 million to U.S. banks from a $1.42 billion escrow fund deposited in the Bank of England as part of the January 1981 hostage-release agreement. Iran had said it would repudiate its debts to American banks in late 1979, after Jimmy Carter froze Iranian assets in the U.S. Bankers from both countries now meet almost daily at the London branch of Iran's Bank Melli to allocate the fund, and participants say the talks have become increasingly free of polemics. The biggest settlement to a commercial bank came in July, when...
...questioned President Reagan about the papers too. During an hourlong session in the living quarters of the White House two weeks ago, Reagan reportedly reiterated to agents that he knew nothing of the Carter documents until the press reported their existence last June...