Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faces and new accents in Washington; a cast of characters far more "different" than a change of Administration usually brings; perhaps fresh directions for the nation. All this was greeted by the country in an oddly subdued mood. There were considerable expectations, some apprehension and, still, a rather dazed sense of having gone through one of the most remarkable campaigns in modern American history...
...next night, back in the White House, the President kept his emotions in check and his thoughts closely guarded. He watched the returns from the second-floor living room and den, sipping drinks and dining on a buffet of beef stroganoff, seafood creole, fresh fruit and pastries. Surrounded by his family and a few friends, he exhibited outer confidence. Yet the mood of the gathering was apprehensive. After 3 a.m., before the latest return had gone sour and Carter had congratulated him for a superb campaign, the man who had come so heartbreakingly close went to sleep without conceding...
Even if Ford wins an election mandate for the next four years and the Democratic majority in Congress is somewhat diminished, he will have a hard time because the Democrats will have fresh and tougher leadership on the Hill. The Speaker of the House will no longer be the amiable Carl Albert but Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a shrewd liberal who will more aggressively challenge the White House. In the Senate, the favorite to replace Montana's scholarly and restrained Mike Mansfield as majority leader is West Virginia's Robert Byrd...
...other personnel shifts, a top presidential adviser says: "I think there will be a considerable upheaval in the Cabinet, a lot of changes within the White House and an infusion of fresh blood throughout the Administration." There is speculation that Treasury Secretary William Simon, Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, Transportation Secretary William Coleman and Attorney General Edward Levi will leave early in a new Ford Administration -or perhaps before it even begins. Because Ford tends to promote from within, possible candidates for Cabinet posts include James Baker, 46, the unflappable Houston lawyer who smoothly ran Ford's election campaign...
...anti-Communist sweeps by the army and police, especially in the capital, and has released all but 200 of the 1,000-odd suspects they had corralled. After the initial postcoup excesses, the government is increasingly aware of the danger of providing Thailand's Communist insurgents with a fresh influx of embittered, educated cadres. The threat was underlined when four top members of Thailand's Socialist Party used clandestine Communist radios to blast the "fascist NARC and the puppet Tanin" and call for "violent struggle...