Word: eizenstat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, where it was 1:50 p.m. when the jet cleared Iranian airspace, the State Department began informing the families that the hostages were free at last. Carter quickly got the word too, and his airborne party, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Jack Watson and Stuart Eizenstat, struggled with laughter and tears at the same time. Phil Wise rushed into the plane's press section to paraphrase a Martin Luther King Jr. line that applied aptly to both the Carter Administration officials and the hostages: "We're free, we're free; thank God almighty, we're free...
Reagan and Anderson supporters accused Carter of failing, despite two gluts on the oil market in four years, to establish adequate emergency fuel reserves in case of a crisis in the Persian Gulf. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's chief domestic advisor, said the U.S. is "as ready as it's ever been" for a crisis, and mentioned possible gas rationing or military response as alternatives...
...saddle without a horse. The center has eroded. As Carter's supporters justifiably point out, there are dangers inherent in cleaving too closely to a set doctrine, a grand design; consensus politics have not always produced desirable results. In a fit of frustration, White House domestic adviser Stuart Eizenstat admitted to Broder that he longed for a parliamentary system. This amounts to a revealing response to Carter's second question, "Can our government be competent?" and it comes from the president's top domestic consultant...
...skepticism about Kennedy was even more evident the next morning when the President's closest advisers-Charlie Kirbo, Stu Eizenstat, Jordan and Powell -gathered at 9 o'clock in Strauss's three-room hotel suite. Strauss informed them that he had called Kennedy early that morning only to be told the Senator was too busy to talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent...
...search of political dope. Cabinet officers were practically begging to be interviewed, but Wilkie and most experienced Washington hands studiously ignored them, figuring they knew less than the press did. Many reporters dutifully attended formal briefings on the platform planks, but with little enthusiasm. After a session with Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief domestic adviser, one reporter was left behind snoozing in his chair...