Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the policy differences between the Carter and Reagan Administrations in this regard are less profound than they may seem. Says one National Security Council staff member: "What it comes down to is this: we're prepared to put into practice what the Carter Administration in its last year was beginning to formulate as policy." Reagan has put U.S. planes within snooping distance of Chad, but five years ago, President Carter provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion...
Then, about the time he is convinced that meditation in hushed sanctuaries can solve the world's problems, as Jimmy Carter once believed, the President had better get back to the parade ground and relish the martial strains of The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...work of a volunteer humor commando team: Buchwald, Shields, veteran Democratic Political Manager Frank Mankiewicz and CBS News Consultant Richard Drayne. Glenn was a hit. He pretended to praise Walter Mondale for not being "afraid to be sharply critical of the President's policies. Fortunately," Glenn added, "President Carter hasn't taken it personally...
...have alienated voters. Several realms are off-limits: ethnic and racial jokes, anything remotely smutty. While Reagan can repeat punch lines about his age, it would be unseemly for a Democrat to joke about the President's advanced years. Topicality is crucial. For instance, Rollings' allusion to Carter's seven-year-old, lust-in-my-heart Playboy interview (Hollings: "I'm lusting for the nomination") does not quite work. "There are no eternal political jokes," says Mankiewicz. He crafted one of the more enduring, however, in 1968 for Robert Kennedy: "I'm not really interested...
...joint intervention was the largest since 1979, when the Carter Administration launched a $30 billion effort to prop up what was then a sinking dollar. The Reagan White House, by contrast, has preferred a hands-off policy toward the currency's price. After the attempted presidential assassination in 1981, it stepped in to calm foreign-exchange markets, and it did so again last October, largely to ease jitters over a possible Brazilian default. But each time Washington pumped in no more than $100 million...