Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Trilateralites-about a quarter of the commission's U.S. members-are advising Carter during the transition. They include Carter's Vice President, Walter Mondale; the commission's former director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who could become Carter's National Security adviser; one of the President-elect's leading union backers, U.A.W. Chief Leonard Woodcock; Attorney Paul Warnke, a possible choice for Secretary of Defense; and Columbia Professor Richard Gardner, a Carter foreign policy aide...
...Wright has defined his future role as that of a builder of bridges between differing Democratic factions. With a ready smile below his high-flying eyebrows, Wright has a personality that wins him friends among men who disagree strongly with his ideology. But when he does differ with Speaker-elect O'Neill, he can still be counted on to be a loyal player on Tip's team...
...Including Sam's father. Edgar, chairman of Seagram who had just returned from Washington. DC where with 14 other business leaders, he had conferred with President-elect Jimmy Carter
...peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent A.L. (for Aaron Loren) Blanton...
There was a sense of political irony as well as holy resurrection. Two and a half years ago, in an act of brutal pragmatism, Chirac rejected his own party's Guallist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, in the French presidential elections and threw his support to Giscard, the more likely winner. Now Chirac was promising to lead the Gaullists out of the wilderness, to save France from the man he had helped elect...