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This general approach also seems to contradict Carter's frequently expressed concern for the underprivileged in society. As he has noted, the draft evaders are overwhelmingly white and middleclass. A report prepared for President Ford in 1975 placed 87% of them in this category. The deserters are largely poor and disproportionately black-more than 50% low-income and 20% black. In general, the more affluent, better-educated war resisters found the means to avoid service by evading the draft; the underprivileged submitted, turning against the war later, if at all, by deserting...
After two of his other Cabinet nominees had seemed to contradict his earlier pledges. Carter made a point of reminding the men and women gathered on St. Simons that he considers them "equally responsible" with him "for carrying out my campaign promises." Clearly the President-elect faces a difficult problem in reconciling his expansive campaign pledges with the hard facts of political reality. Indeed, Jimmy Carter himself made a significant hedge last week. During his spectacular rise to the presidency, he often followed up a campaign pledge with the confident declaration, "and you can depend on it." Trying to define...
...another familiar claim, Carter maintains he drastically cut the Georgia state bureaucracy. But facts again contradict those claims. By the time Carter left office, the number of state employees and state spending in Georgia had jumped 30 and 50 per cent respectively...
...case. A second article, appearing in the next issue of the Record, was to discuss the final recommendations of the Placement Committee, the Law School body that sets up general guidelines for law firms' recruiting procedures at Harvard. Amazingly, the investigator's findings and the Placement Committee's recommendations contradict each other almost completely. The committee reported that Bowman acted in good faith throughout--that is, her reaction to the recruiter was not overblown and, some members of the committee said, was perfectly justified...
...almost entirely the male scions of social privileged families. Therefore it becomes one of the tasks of those groups who have been excluded from the tradition of reality-making to examine the "real world" critically from their own viewpoints, and to generate their own models of those aspects that contradict or blatantly exclude their own experience...