Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contending that more requests for Carter's vote-getting help are reaching the White House than he can accept, the President's advisers are employing a loyalty test as one means of deciding which candidates to aid. The results have been compiled in a large black notebook, with computer print-outs that detail the voting record of each Senate and House member. While those with poor records of support for Carter's programs are not ruled out of his campaign plans, they are assigned a low priority...
...unsigned White House memo outlining a more rigid version of this policy surfaced on Capitol Hill last week. Written by Valerie F. Pinson, who is one of Carter's emissaries to the House, the memo said only two categories of Congressmen were eligible for his campaign help...
Many House Democrats were outraged by the memo, which they regarded as authorizing a semipurge list. Several called the White House to complain. "We are keeping score," admitted a presidential aide. "We are looking at people who help us that we can help. But it doesn't mean we aren't helping others." The aide said the memo was "not accurate"−and even if it had been, "it was dumb to write it down." Declared Pinson, after the memo was obtained by TIME: "It is out of date. We have re-evaluated our plans...
...Democrats really want or need Jimmy Carter's help? Opinions vary. Exclaims Texas Congressman Jim Wright, Democratic House floor leader: "For heaven's sake! Of course, the President of the United States will be in demand−more invitations than he can accept...
...grateful were the relatives for Lance's help that LaBelle and Brother-in-Law Claude in April 1974 refurbished a cottage known as Eagle's Nest on the Lance farm as a gift to Bert. To pay for the work, Claude wrote $40,000 in checks on his already overdrawn Calhoun checking account...