Word: hertzberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foundation." How did that unresounding term come to be Jimmy Carter's slogan for what his Administration is trying to achieve? Rick Hertzberg, a presidential speechwriter, thought it up about two months ago, but when he offered it at an informal meeting on Administration goals, the reaction was leaden. "Everyone said, 'Can't we come up with something better?' " one aide recalls. Apparently not. Indeed, some of the alternatives were clearly worse -"groundwork," for example, or "building blocks." And though "new" is one of the oldest terms in political rhetoric, repeatedly reappearing as in "New Deal...
...deadline for the State of the Union message neared, Hertzberg tried New Foundation, and it turned out to be, as they say, a slogan whose time had come. But for how long...
...during the long primary season-a Northerner's suspicion of a politician from the South, an apprehension about a contender lacking experience in national Government and a displeasure about what has been perceived (however incorrectly) as Carter's fuzziness on specific issues. In addition, as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, President of the American Jewish Congress, points out: "There's no national Jewish leader who can actually say, 'Jimmy Carter is my friend...
...ludicrous enchantment with all things Jewish." If an Arab oil squeeze further deepens the U.S. economic recession, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, fears that the interests of both Israel and American Jews will suffer. He warns: "When people are out of work and hungry, they get angry; they start looking for scapegoats...
...involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, merely seems to be: "Get this behind me so that I can get on with writing my memoirs and tell that I was right in the first place." Even on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement that falls next week, sins against...