Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caddell wrote a virtual blueprint for Carter's Camp David summit. In fact, Caddell had been trying to persuade Carter to refurbish his presidency since April, when he sent the President a now famous lengthy memo describing growing pessimism among the American electorate. In March, for instance, Caddell found that 48% of the people he surveyed called themselves "longterm pessimists," up from 30% in 1975. Other pollsters question Caddell's objectivity, and stress that Carter is partly responsible for the public gloom. Their surveys find that Americans are more pessimistic about the President than about themselves. Responds Caddell...
...wanted to be, and Americans were blaming him now for the exhaustion of oilfields, the greed of Arabs and their own insatiability; they were blaming him for much more history than he should be held accountable for. Still, they were right to judge Carter harshly as a leader. In fact, he seems to have judged himself just as severely, as he suggested in his address to the nation after Camp David...
...America, Muller is fighting for jobs, better benefits and respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about the war: "Your guilt, your hang-ups, your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans. We fought hard and we fought well...
...since become disillusioned with the President's energy policies; the Senator from the oil state would like to deregulate gasoline prices and is strongly opposed to the Administration's windfall profits tax proposal. But the single most important problem that the country faces, cautions Boren, "is overregulation and the fact that the regulators have no accountability to the American public...
Somoza talked of saving Nicaragua from Communism; in fact, he was plundering the country for his own benefit. Among the companies that he controlled was a Mercedes-Benz dealership that sold garbage trucks to Managua's sanitation department. Another firm collected the revenues from the city's parking meters. Such risk-free opportunities, of course, are no longer available to Somoza. But between the assets that he and his mistress brought with them into exile, there could be enough to rebuild his empire all over again, albeit on a lesser scale...