Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth, Egypt probably was not planning to repay the old Soviet loan anyway. But the maneuver was typical of Moscow's new posture. Says William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, who served on the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter: "There is clearly a new style and a greater degree of energy in the Soviet attitude toward the Middle East." This is characterized, says Quandt, by a "new, experimental attitude" in which the Soviets are making "simultaneous approaches to the Palestine Liberation Organization, to Syria, Egypt, Israel and in the gulf...
...many such firms that have grown up around the Washington Beltway in the past decade, most of them staffed with veterans of the huge CIA covert operations of the Viet Nam era. Reacting both to the end of the war and to congressional investigations of covert activities, Jimmy Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner purged nearly 800 people from the agency. Some of them turned up in the Beltway firms. "One result of the purge was that many of the former agents set up private companies that began working for the agency and the Defense Department as independent contractors," says...
Griffin Bell, Attorney General for Carter, once trudged to the Hill to try to talk House Speaker Thomas O'Neill into discouraging the mushrooming use of the legislative veto. Bell considered this proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O'Neill seemed more eager to fight than be right. "They almost wanted to be co-President," Bell recalled the other day. "If a President is faithful to his oath, he must resist...
...lack of charisma he and Bradley share. "The fact of the matter is that I've been coming on charismatic the last month or two," said Dukakis. "I've learned everything I know from Bill Bradley." Bruce Babbitt demonstrated his yen for subtle complexity by playing off Jimmy Carter, with whom he is sometimes compared, and Gephardt, whom he must beat in Iowa. Like Carter, he deadpanned, he discusses issues with his children. Babbitt quoted his nine-year-old son as saying, "Dad, you've really got to do something about colorization of classic films." The father had to confess...
...Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, has been pressing for revisions in that spirit. "In the parliamentary systems of Western Europe and Japan . . . the Prime Minister's success rate is very close to 100%," says Cutler, former counsel to President Carter. "The American system today is only four-fifths as efficient when we achieve party government and only two- thirds as efficient when we have divided government...