Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal agency is without its tales of bureaucracy gone awry. Samples...
...White House broadside not only kept the Sarsfield's incident alive but drew guffaws from Washington pols. Illinois Republican Robert Michel chortled in a House speech that in one year the Carter Administration had gone from "great expectations to great expectorations...
Jimmy Carter is the first modern President whose quotient of class seems to have gone dramatically down since his days as a candidate. Normally, the primary battles are considered times of intrigue and crude maneuvers, leading up to the White House, a place of enlarged distinction. In the Iowa farm homes and the New Hampshire grange halls Carter had class as he talked about his hopes for America. He still is impressive in the small groups that gather around him in the Cabinet Room. But his presidency is becoming tarnished by the antics of others and the fact that Carter...
...unlikely that he will win again." In 1976, the authors argue, Southern whites set aside their conservatism to vote for liberal Carter because they felt "the idea that 'a Southerner couldn't be elected President' was an idea whose time had come ?and gone." Yet would they feel compelled to make that point again? The authors think not, citing the Kennedy experience: after Republican Catholics voted for Democrat John Kennedy in large numbers in 1960 to disprove the notion that a Catholic could not be elected President, Catholicism never again was a major voting issue. Now that Carter...
...immediate removal of sanctions and a cessation of terrorism. Dr. Kissinger was sufficiently straightforward to say to me that he believed they could guarantee an end to sanctions. The second point they could not promise, but nevertheless they would use their good offices. These were powerful factors. We've gone even further than we were asked to go. If it was right for the British and American governments to make that offer then, it should be even more right for them to make the same offer in conjunction with these proposals...