Word: chats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter intends to repeat the fireside chat and the phone-in, and he is considering a scheme to make sure that 5% to 10% of the guests at official White House lunches or dinners are "average Americans." The President plans to make other brief forays around the country, settling down for the night in the homes of private citizens. After his visit to Clinton this week, Carter will travel to Charleston, W. Va., for a conference on energy and coal, and then hop up to New York City to deliver a U.N. address that will outline his general views...
Rather than addressing the problem, the United States has decreased humanitarian aid to third world countries by about 60 per cent in the last fifteen years. As Jimmy Carter said in his radio chat last Sunday afternoon, the United States only devotes three-tenths of one per cent of its GNP to foreign aid. This figure is substantially less than corresponding figures for France, Germany, and England. And although Carter has claimed all along that he has a deep concern for those suffering in other nations, his priorities seem to be similar to Ford's in the area of foreign...
More broadly, the nation's regional press has applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years...
...Jimmy's fireside chat compare with F.D.R.'s first one? Said Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "President Carter fits television like my father fitted radio." Though both delivered their talks within two weeks of assuming power (F.D.R. on the eighth night), the differences were great. "Let us unite in banishing fear," said Roosevelt, and he made huge news by announcing that the nation's banks, closed by his order, would begin reopening the next day. The reaction was electrifying-and overwhelmingly positive. Walter Lippmann declared: "The nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence...
...dissident leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Although Cyrus Vance and Jimmy Carter both waffled somewhat on the exact wording of their commitment to take a moral stand in foreign policy, both had ultimately backed State's critique of the Soviets' behavior. In his fireside chat last week, Carter repeated his concern for human rights, stressing, though, that this would not be allowed to upset "our efforts toward friendly relations with other countries...