Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already picking running mates--which should give you some indication of how good his chances are at the nomination. The Boston Herald reported last week that Boston Mayor Ray Flynn has been mentioned by Jackson as a strong possibility. But then, so have Pat Schoeder, Jim Wright, Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro...
Such "big" moments illustrate how much this is a campaign of the technicians. The candidates talk not of issues and programs but of their self- proclaimed character and capacity for leadership and of their rivals' flaws. For this, Hodding Carter III, writing in the Wall Street Journal, blames the electorate: "Whatever tendencies any of them might have to talk turkey to the voters is withered by the clear evidence that the voters are not yet ready to hear it . . . They know the day of accountability is coming, but they are in no hurry to reach...
There's some truth in all of it, but there is no denying Strauss's reputation as a doer. He has never held elective office and has not even been in Government since he was Jimmy Carter's special trade representative and roving Middle East ambassador. But his circle of friends is as wide as any in Washington. Sit long enough in his law office on New Hampshire Avenue and you will hear him deal with a dazzling cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper...
...make a game of gravitas: who has it, who does not. Gorbachev, surely. Pope John Paul II. Jimmy Carter did not. Nor did Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon displayed a bizarre and complex gravitas that destroyed itself in sinister trivialities. Does Ronald Reagan have gravitas? In some ways, Reagan seems a perfect expression of the anti-gravitas America of the late '80s, a place that can seem weightless and evanescent, as forgetful as a television screen. Gravitas, a deep moral seriousness, is not necessarily the virtue for an electronic age. And yet Reagan possesses a gravitas of authenticity. In any case...
...three-way tie in the Democratic race prompted former President Jimmy Carter to observe, "I think it's accurate to say the chances are less likely that one of the candidates will arrive in Atlanta with a clear majority...