Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important thing to realize is that no one considers abortion a morally insignificant form of birth control for the careless. It is rather an emotionally painful decision that is arrived at after a great deal of thought and soul searching. Women have abortions only when the alternative is unendurable...
...almost no one was prepared for what Carter set in motion Tuesday morning: the most thoroughgoing, and puzzling, purge in the history of the U.S. presidency.* His Cabinet had lasted intact longer than those of the great majority of Presidents: 30 months. It took him exactly 72 hours to rip it apart. Out went...
...week wore on, Carter acted as if a great weight had been lifted off him. Looking out of a White House window on Thursday evening, he spotted some people pressed up against the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his shirtsleeves the President went out to see them. As the crowd broke into a verse of one of his favorite hymns, Amazing Grace, Carter climbed the fence to greet them. Friday afternoon, at a two-minute press conference, an unsmiling Carter defended his Cabinet changes as being "all constructive" and said that there would be no further firings. He added...
Although the appointment of Jordan was greeted with widespread skepticism outside the White House, those closest to Carter welcomed the move. Said Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore: "It's great. We needed it. You can already tell the difference. Procedures are crisper...
Even so, Carter's handling of the mass firings caused Europeans to cluck in wonder. A high-ranking West German Foreign Ministry official asked: "Is this serious, or is this just a great religious exercise for the soul?" Oslo's middle-roading daily Verdens Gang called the Washington situation a "circus" and a "balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than...