Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice president's aides said he would make some transition announcements this morning before meeting with former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, who recently wrote a report with bipartisan advice for the new president...
Just eleven days after the giddiness of Atlanta, a dozen political consultants met with top Dukakis staffers to discuss fall strategy at his headquarters in Boston. Brimming with the joy of a hefty lead over Bush, the aides listened as Stu Eizenstat, a former Jimmy Carter aide, warned them to beware cockiness. He handed them a memo, "How to Blow a 30-Point Lead," based on Carter's precipitate drop during the waning days of 1976. "There was a tendency to rest on what seemed like a big lead," Eizenstat told them. "You become complacent...
...since the Democrats stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that around 1968 or 1972 they ceased to be the nation's natural governing party. The myth structure that surrounds the victories of Franklin Roosevelt dies hard, even though Democrats conveniently forget that only two of their candidates (Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter) have garnered the support of a majority of the electorate since...
Suspicions were running high during the transition between the Carter and Reagan administrations in 1980, recalls Susan J. Irving, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School who served as staff director of Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers...
Irving, who stayed on in her position for one month into Reagan's first term, recalls that top Reagan aides would not even leave telephone messages with Carter administration secretaries who had not yet been replaced...