Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most electable challenger to Ronald Reagan? Pollster Patrick Caddell, a colleague and occasional antagonist of Mondale's in the Carter White House, says bluntly, "He's vulnerable. Can he excite people enough to central themes...
Reagan aides spar over the Carter campaign-papers case
...then President Jimmy Carter declared that fit males, upon reaching the age of 18, must go to the Post Office and send the Selective Service a postcard. To enforce the order, the Justice Department last summer started a largely symbolic effort to prosecute violators. This past year, the government added a more practical and widesweeping measure--withholding federal financial aid to those non-registrants going to college...
...number of Cannon's colleagues do not believe they are being charmed, disarmed or taken in, but they do think they are being outmaneuvered by Reagan's people and are frustrated. Some of these irritations were discussed recently on Hodding Carter's Inside Story on PBS. Jody Powell remembered how he worried, as Jimmy Carter's press secretary, about whether a bitter and cynical press corps had become "a permanent fixture in American politics." Under Reagan, Powell acknowledged, the hostility on both sides has ebbed: "Most reporters I talk to say they generally sort of like...
...kept at a distance, limited in their White House access. Working from Reagan's speeches or off-the-cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have...