Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young wring any concessions from the President-elect on how powerful his role would...
...signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 when a second-term Congressman from Seattle pinpointed the job as his next stop on the turnpike of his political career. Last week Brock Adams (he never uses the second syllable of his baptismal name Brockman) arrived at this goal when President-elect Carter announced his nomination as Transportation's fifth Secretary...
...expected to select for the post early this week has close political as well as personal ties to Carter. Griffin B. Bell, 58, who served as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for 14 years, has been a friend and adviser of Carter's since the President-elect became Georgia's Governor in 1971. Though Bell held no official position in the campaign, he was consulted by both Carter and his aides...
Nonetheless, observers in Moscow detect a distinct mellowness in some Brezhnev-dictated policies. Last month he passed word through outgoing Treasury Secretary William Simon to the President-elect that the Soviet Union has no intention of testing Carter in the early days of his Administration...
...Question. Now it is the Democrats' turn to direct the economy, and the key question is what President-elect Jimmy Carter will do−and whether any policy he adopts will have much effect before 1978. As Inauguration Day approaches, the talk in the Carter camp is becoming steadily more modest. His advisers at one time spoke ebulliently of slashing unemployment in 1977 by three or four percentage points. Since the election, Carter has set goals of 6% growth for his first year in office and only a 1½ point cut in the unemployment rate...