Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of America?" His answer, delivered with few explanatory details: Attack unemployment (while still fighting inflation); reform taxes to "bring relief to the average income earner"; improve health care, housing, education and programs for the elderly. It was a more or less standard liberal Democratic shopping list. In reply, Dole said that the American people were turned off by "promises and promises and bigger and bigger spending programs and more and more inflation," which he called "the crudest...
...Bunny Vote. On foreign policy, Dole stoutly defended Republican policies and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a villain to the G.O.P. right wing and a man Carter has criticized for his "Lone Ranger" brand of statesmanship. Mondale argued vaguely for a more open foreign policy consistent with American democratic principles. He dragged in Ford's blooper about Eastern Europe's being free of Soviet domination. It was, he said, "probably one of the most outrageous statements made by a President in recent political history...
...evening went on, the exchanges grew more and more acrimonious. "My opponent voted against Medicare-can you imagine?" asked Mondale. He also charged that Dole had tried to remove TV cameras from the Ervin committee hearings on Watergate. Dole, in turn, said that Mondale "wants to spend your money and tax and tax and spend and spend." Mondale, Dole wisecracked, was so completely under labor's thumb that AFL-CIO President George Meany was probably his makeup man. As for Carter, Dole said that the Democratic nominee had three positions on every issue, which...
Probably the greatest gaffe of the evening-one that might have given Mondale an ultimate edge-was Dole's ill-considered remark that World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Viet Nam were all "Democrat wars" that killed 1.6 million Americans. Retorted Mondale: "I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight. Does he really mean to suggest that there was a partisan difference over our involvement... to fight Nazi Germany...
...most vitally interested viewers of the televised debate, not surprisingly, came to quite different conclusions about the outcome. President Ford phoned Dole to say "You were superb. You were confident. You hit hard but hit fairly." Jimmy Carter told Mondale: "Fritz, you did great, man ... You didn't get small, you didn't get mean, you didn't get twisted in your approach...