Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President-elect vows to pay much attention to strengthening ties to traditional U.S. allies?Western Europe, Japan, Latin America. Europeans are worried by his on-again, off-again statements about pulling some U.S. troops out of the Continent. Not only must he assure a skeptical Europe that he is firmly committed to NATO, but he must also work to strengthen the alliance against the continuing and ominous buildup of Soviet bloc forces. Far more important, he has to face a Western Europe racked by economic problems and political unrest, with the left rising fast...
...waste." He probably can safely pare some $5 billion from Ford's proposed defense budget for fiscal 1978, which is expected to be about $125 billion, v. the $108.8 billion appropriated by Congress for the current year. Half of that total is in personnel costs, and the President-elect most probably will trim away at them...
...they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President-elect. His report...
Seated in the comfortable parlor of his home in Plains, President-elect Jimmy Carter was interviewed last week by TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondents Stanley Cloud and Bonnie Angela. Speaking at length of his plans for the presidency and his progress thus far, Carter disclosed that...
...naturally more guarded-any boy who suggests the name "Hot" to his kin and turns up at 52 as President-elect was hardly slated to end as a joker-and even in Faye's cafe the next night with a handful of journalists, his wife and daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost...