Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press corps?" Somewhat sarcastically, Carter answered that he had no dispute with such "a group of superbly qualified, highly objective, extremely intelligent analysts," but he added that he planned to "let my voice be heard and felt . . . from various places in the country." This week the new campaign of hard-selling will take him to Bardstown, Ky., and more trips are being planned...
Before the hard sell could really get under way, however, Carter had to finish the administrative shake-up that had swept five Cabinet members out of office the previous week, leaving some major vacancies in the Executive Branch. The President succeeded in attracting a remarkable and impressive variety of new talent to his Administration. The major newcomers...
...laugh: "The President told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy political treatises, whipping around town in his gold-colored Mercedes and partying with Jordan. Says he: "I work hard and I play hard." Unmarried, Caddell has recently shed 60 lbs. and grown a gray-flecked beard. He has not, however, lost his sense of where he fits into the Administration's power structure. Says he: "I'm less influential than I'd like to think...
Leadership involves combinations of the inspirational and the managerial. If it is hard to inspire people now, it is even harder to manage their problems. "There is a difference between winning an election and governing," says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. The first black elected mayor of a major Southern city, Jackson brought a talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal...
...respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about the war: "Your guilt, your hang-ups, your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans. We fought hard and we fought well...