Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advance people, who smoothly guide the candidates and their families through the convention, sometimes have to do more than organize. On Monday night during former President Jimmy Carter's speech, Kitty Dukakis, worn out from the excitement of the week, started nodding off to sleep. After consulting with other staff people, her advance woman made her way over to the governor's wife and gently poked her in order to ask a strategic question...
...ranging from the New York Times to the New Republic. In a recent full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. All of them have signed the Society's "Mars Declaration," which advocates a U.S. space program that would lead to the human exploration of Mars...
Another basic element of Dukakis' world view is a moral sense that U.S. policy must be based on the "fundamental decency and values of the American people," rather than on a hard-nosed, realpolitik approach to strategic interests. In this regard, he is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, which could be a source of trouble. That is evident in Dukakis' emphasis on human rights in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and it underlies his vigorous opposition to Reagan's approach to southern Africa. Dukakis argues that the most important source of America's influence in the world, and of sustained domestic...
When 1980 came around, Blacks, along with the rest of America, were fed up with Carter. While Blacks sat on their hands, the rest of America voted Carter out and Reagan into office...
That turned out to be a major mistake on the part of most of Black America, which did not vote despite a gloomy prophecy on the part of Carter about a conservative Reagan court...