Word: friends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right response to Middle East crises [March 12] would be for President Carter to issue a White Paper declaring to the whole world, foe and friend alike, that oil is indispensable to the life of the American people, and that the U.S. will use all of its might and resources to protect the supply of oil, wherever...
...federal investigators have been examining the Carters' business records and the N.B.G.'s loan accounts to see if any illegal activity was involved in handling loans of more than $4.6 million to the Carter business. The loans were arranged by then N.B.G. President Bert Lance, the close friend whom Jimmy Carter later made Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington. One question was whether any of the funds had been used illegally in Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency. So far, no evidence has turned up that any money from the loans found...
...public disagrees. According to a poll published by the newsmagazine L'Express, 33% of Frenchmen consider West Germany their "best friend." The U.S. is in second place with 22%, followed by Belgium (20%) and Britain...
...since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young South Koreans? High, since girls were not allowed...
...sense of press irresponsibility persists. You can hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...