Word: governing
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JIMMY CARTER'S presidency has enshrined a law of contemporary politics that seemingly governs those who govern: For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision. Not that he bears sole responsibility--he is at once a product and an extension of the politics fashioned by the media and the polls. He cannot automatically be condemned for conducting his presidency like a campaign and his campaign like a president. More dangerous are the roots of his present posture, a stance much different from that of four years ago, when he rode a wave of superficial optimism into office. Carter...
Walesa has also mastered the art of the political riposte. Asked if the workers' demands might not have left the government dangerously little room for maneuver, he told TIME's Barry Kalb: "We want a strong Poland so that everyone can smile. Is the government supposed to serve the people, or are the people supposed to serve the government? Who leads whom?" Do the workers, then, want to become the leaders, he was asked. "No, no. The government has to govern, of course. We don't want to become the government...
...must. Otherwise it won't be able to govern. The problem is that it has gone so far out on a limb in its quest for radical gestures that it will have difficulty regaining its poise. I am ready to help and I have proved it. Other politicians, I hope, will follow suit and give up the prevalent practice of scoring cheap points by blind, strident radicalism...
...Georgians gloried in being outsiders," says a former Carter Cabinet officer about the inner White House circle. "They never understood?and do not today?that if you are going to govern, then you have to reach out." A couple of years ago, when trouble for Carter's programs was developing on the Hill and it was apparent that the gap between Congress and the White House was widening, Carter was urged to select certain compatible Senators and Congressmen and get to know them over dinner or at other social occasions. Maine's then Senator Edmund Muskie was viewed...
Every Monday night, in an ancient room watched over by portraits of Irish pols with red-veined noses, the Cambridge city council meets. City councilors are elected at large across the city; they number nine. Theirs is the chief electoral power in Cambridge, and while they do not govern the city from day to day, they have the power to see that it is pretty much run as they wish. For years, ethnic politicians dominated the council chambers. Now, the council features four "Independents"--relatively conservative neighborhood politicians--four Cambridge Civic Association members--liberals who owe their election...