Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke sent a copy to President Jimmy Carter, who had signed the treaty. Last week the letter was discovered in the collection of the Carter Presidential Library. Carter's reply: "Your letter is great -- tough and factual...
...front to the American voter for long. If the Democrats lose the next election it will mean 12 straight years--and possibly 16--of Republican control of the White House. The only Democratic President voters aged 18 to 30--huge cross-section of the electorate--will remember is Jimmy Carter...
...Democrats can't count on California, which supported Ford against Carter in 1976. That leaves just the South as the most important region to capture. And since Southern Blacks automatically vote Democrat, it means that Southern whites will have the crucial swing vote...
...President -- a phrase that Donaldson says he has never actually used but that typifies his approach -- is in large part an attempt to justify his manner to readers who think him disrespectful. Although he offers plenty of eyewitness disclosures about Ronald Reagan fumbling over details and Jimmy Carter ruthlessly playing to win, he emphasizes the growing difficulty of breaking through White House image manipulation to get straight answers about U.S. policy, and has added timely passages about how isolation from press oversight contributed to the Iran-contra crisis. As tough on the page as on the screen, Donaldson prides himself...
...American policy, arms control, taxes, trade issues, the clean-water bill, aid for the homeless. As the White House hunkered down, G.O.P. congressional unity started crumbling. , "The effect was devastating," said Representative Lynn Martin of Illinois, vice chairman of the House Republican conference. "We were sort of helpless. A Carter malaise had struck Republicans...