Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bell, Carter removed non-Georgian dissenters and replaced them with men who had already demonstrated their loyalty to the Carter team. In any other terms, Carter's purge accomplished remarkably little. It brought no new faces of distinction into the Administration. In effect, the President and his men had done little more than try to shift blame for their troubles to the Cabinet and draw up the wagons in a circle for the 16-month political siege that will end with the 1980 election. According to Califano, Carter specifically said that he "had to get the Cabinet and the Administration...
Perhaps the most unfortunate element of the housecleaning was that it provoked new doubts about Carter's understanding of the Federal Government and about his own leadership ability. He apparently intended the mass resignations as a dramatic symbol of a fresh start, as Nixon had done at the beginning of his second term. But Carter's coup de theatre looked more like amateur melodrama. He could have fired the subordinates who displeased him with less trauma and far better effect on his image as an executive. But he nonetheless sought everyone's resignation, apparently not anticipating how the act would...
...President basked in the applause for a day and then, on Tuesday morning, he set in motion his astounding purge, undoing much of the good he had done himself. It began at a 9:30 a.m. staff meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room. Said Carter to his senior aides: "I didn't come to pat everybody on the back. Every one of you knows what you have done right. But there has not been enough done right." He thereupon announced Jordan's elevation to chief of staff and shortly afterward left the room. Forty-five minutes later, Carter...
Jordan did not particularly want to be chief of staff, but he vowed, "If I do it, it won't be done in a half-assed way." As he took command last week, he seemed determined to carry out that pledge. Said he: "I'll have to change in a number of ways. I'll have to change my approach and my attitude to my work. I know what I do well and what I don't do well. What I do well is, I plan. I am organized in my head...
...softly. "The fundamentals don't change - love within a family, honesty, friendship among people, the desire for peace, respect for one another, the beauty of nature and genuine patriotism based on confidence in our country." In that appeal there seemed almost a public apology for what he had done...