Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was exactly what Young already intended to do. During his 90-minute talk with Carter in the Executive Mansion's family quarters, the ambassador offered to resign. Young later hinted that he might have been able to keep his job if "I could promise that I wouldn'...
So, too, was Young's diplomacy crucial to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. He mobilized a voter registration drive, mustering black support for Carter. When Carter later blundered into saying that any neighborhood had a right to maintain its "ethnic purity," Young objected but stood by him and...
Fuel shortages were most on the minds of some three dozen people who engaged Gore in a lively discussion at a school in Willette. Asked a lean farmer in blue overalls: "Are we going to be able to get enough fuel this fall to harvest our crops?" A long-haired...
> Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts was pleasantly surprised by the turnout of some 250 people in a hot, stuffy school auditorium in Harwich, on Cape Cod. He caught not a single question about foreign affairs or even about next year's presidential election-despite the fact that Ted...
Philadelphia's barbaric police practices were first exposed in detail in a Pulitzer-prizewinning series of articles published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The newspaper reported, for example, that during interrogations at police headquarters, suspects were routinely handcuffed to metal chairs, questioned for as long as 24 hours and often...