Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sincerely hope that President Carter shows me what a fool I was to vote for his predecessor. Your coverage of the President-elect's carefully considered appointments leads me to believe this. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
...President-elect who, during only one week of Cabinet choices, not only draws the disapproval of Ralph Nader, but also will not appoint Bella Abzug as Secretary of Transportation...
...kind of shakedown cruise-shakier at times, perhaps, than Jimmy Carter might have wished. But it accomplished the general purposes the President-elect had in mind. For the first time, Carter last week assembled his top aides, Cabinet nominees and other upper-echelon appointees, giving them a chance to get to know each other and to begin wrestling with the problems they will inherit...
...world apart from the now familiar rusticity of Plains: Musgrove Plantation, an 1,800-acre estate on St. Simons Island, just off the Georgia coast. The opulent spread is owned by Smith Bagley, an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune and a longtime friend of the President-elect. Carter has been there before, and, as in the past, he observed the political propriety of paying Bagley $300 a day. Most of the entourage stayed at the Cloister Hotel on nearby Sea Island (their bills, like Carter's, were paid from the $2 million transition fund...
...Carter vowed that his Administration would not let New York City go into bankruptcy. Meeting with Mayor Abraham Beame and New York's Governor Hugh Carey, the President-elect did not spell out what rescue plans he had in mind, but his assurances were expected to encourage banks and unions to help refinance some of the city's onerous debt. Asked for a reaction to the meeting, Carey beamed: "Peachy...