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Both candidates committed some gaffes. Carter placed the Great Depression in "the 1940s," once slipped into referring to "Mr. Nixon" when he meant and corrected himself to say, "Mr. Ford." More substantively, Carter was wrong in claiming that there are fewer people employed in nonfarm private jobs than when Ford took office; there has been an increase of some 1.8 million. Carter also erred in claiming, "We've got the highest inflation we've had in 25 years right now." The inflation rate was higher earlier in Ford's presidency, in 1974. Trying to correct the use of "now," Carter...
...most dubious shot of the debate was Ford's assertion that "Mr. Carter wants to increase taxes for roughly half of the taxpayers of this country." Carter was correct in pointing out that this assumption was based on an error in an Associated Press report of an interview with him, and that the White House had long ago been informed of the error. In the interview, Carter had said that he intended to "shift a substantial increase " [in taxes] toward those who have the higher incomes and reduce the income [tax] on the lower-income and middle-income taxpayers." Quite...
Carter advisers were concerned over the political fallout, but they should also worry about their own efficiency. Playboy insists that it agreed to allow the candidate or his aides to review the unedited transcripts of the taped interview-to correct factual errors, they maintain, but other interviewees have been allowed to make substantial changes. The Carter camp never asked for the transcripts, says Playboy Assistant Managing Editor Barry Golson. He also insists that he made several calls to Press Secretary Jody Powell to arrange for him to review the transcripts, but that Powell never returned the calls. Journalists familiar with...
...Democrats on the board question whether slow is beautiful. They are worried by what they see as a waste of the nation's resources-the jobless people and the factories working at an average of about 73% of capacity. To correct the situation, they expect Jimmy Carter to follow the conventional Democratic policies spelled out in his position papers and in last week's televised debate: more stimulation of the economy, easier money, tax cuts through tax reform (TIME, June...
...cigarettes sold are contraband. The number of legitimate dealers has been cut in half, and those that are left are either going broke or salting their stocks with untaxed packs. Says Murray Baratz, Secretary-Treasurer of the tobacco distributors' workers' union: "If nothing is done to correct the conditions, there will be in the very near future only bootleggers...