Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington agog: Who took Carter's briefing book...
...inquiry by Michigan Democratic Representative Donald J. Albosta, chairman of the panel that oversees the Ethics in Government Act, was sparked by a new book on Reagan, Gambling with History, by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Barrett wrote that "apparently a Reagan mole in the Carter camp had filched the papers containing the main points" Carter planned to make in the debate. Baker, Stockman, Casey and Communications Director David Gergen, all former Reagan campaign aides, sent Albosta letters explaining what they knew about the papers. Meanwhile, Administration officials debated whether to ask the Justice Department to launch a search...
Baker said he recalled seeing a book "that was thought to have been given by someone with the Carter campaign." He reckoned that he received it from Casey and passed it on to Gergen and Frank Hodsoll, head of the debate team. Hodsoll, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, recalled the book. But Casey claimed to have "no recollection" of it and Gergen hedged, saying that he did not remember "ever receiving or seeing" it but may have seen "some pages...
Hodsoll maintained that the book dealt with routine policy issues and did not reveal strategy. But Stockman, who impersonated Carter in a rehearsal debate with Reagan, said that its "advocacy point of view" was "useful as I prepared outlines of possible answers representing the 'other side...
...people across the country. Not only did no epidemic break out, but 100 or so people came down with a syndrome, apparently connected to the vaccines, that caused partial paralysis. Ninety million unused doses were left over. Officials say that the swine flu debacle was one reason why the Carter Administration decided not to reappoint Dr. David Sencer, who was then the CDC director and is now Commissioner of the New York City Board of Health. Sencer was replaced by Foege, an articulate career public health official from Washington who led the worldwide crusade to eliminate smallpox...