Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's spokesmen insisted that the President-elect was very much in command even if not on the spot. He was keeping in touch by phone and making decisions. He announced one trip before the Inauguration: to Mexico to visit President López Portillo in early January. Beyond that, he had little to say. Explained his chief aide, Edwin Meese: "This is not a time in which you profitably make news. You don't want to lock yourself into policy positions prematurely...
...President-elect, though, also faces a darker side of the energy situation. Total U.S. crude oil consumption this year is about 16.8 million bbl. per day, and 6.7 million bbl. of that is imported. Despite their heavy drilling, oilmen are finding fewer gushers. By 1990, U.S. oil production will have diminished by about 20% from current levels. Thus, the U.S. will continue for most of the decade to be vulnerable to Middle East petroleum cutoffs and exorbitant OPEC price demands...
...President-elect has a long commitment to the concepts that the U.S. will have to produce, rather than conserve, its way to energy sufficiency and that the free market, rather than the Federal Government, should play the main role in developing future energy sources. "I would get the Government out of the energy industry and turn oilmen loose in the marketplace," Reagan told campaign rallies. The new Administration, therefore, expects to emphasize production by decontrolling natural gas prices before 1985, when controls are due to languish anyway, and to maintain the timetable set up by the Carter Administration for phasing...
Already the press is getting used to the way the President-elect-at least before taking office-stays in seclusion, says nothing or prudently contents himself with brief, noncommittal, cameo appearances. In his silence, others, perhaps hoping to speak for him or eager to influence him, fill the gap. The sounds to be heard all over Washington are of trial balloons collapsing and the steady drizzle of leaks...
...separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about anything. Given the possible alternatives, Yoko Ono's fiat that John Lennon's passing be marked with...