Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt that. But I think the rate of increase would be carefully controlled, well considered and subject to a long-range plan. I don't favor Government planning for the private sector, but as President I would start immediately to lay down what I intend to call goals for America. There will be a series of public meetings around the country-much like the ones I held when I became Governor of Georgia-to help plan programs on transportation, energy, health, agriculture, education, welfare and so forth. Cost figures will be put on those programs for the first five...
Carter's campaign is weakest in the West, where he is not well known and where he suffered painful defeats in some of the final primaries. Democratic leaders in the region intend to campaign for him, but with some initial reservations. Said San Francisco Mayor George Moscone: "I'm going to work my ass off for him, but like everybody else, I don't know that much about him." Added Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a liberal: "I tend to see blood, sweat and toil issues. I don't know what Carter thinks about them?if he does...
...writing on a portable writing box that he himself designed. The document that he produced?later amended slightly by the rest of the drafting committee and further altered by the Congress itself ?combines solemnly elevated thought with artful political stratagem. Its philosophy is not novel, nor did Jefferson intend it to be. The same general ideas, most completely developed by English Philosopher John Locke, have been a kind of political gospel in the Colonies for some years. Jefferson intended to state the common American sense, not to invent political theory?an exercise that would have been inappropriate anyway, since...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, and a special negotiator on Cyprus, Korea and Viet Nam. Vance, according to TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter, is leading in the early chart. "He has a smooth, low-keyed public style that appeals to Carter, who does not intend to be overshadowed by his Secretary of State. Vance, is solid and cautious. One colleague who recently spent a month in China with Vance said: 'I never could find out what he thought about anything...
...election days. They include an air-pollution technician from Virginia, a haberdasher from Kansas, a housewife from Oklahoma and a community antipoverty organizer from New York. Some Governors, big-city mayors and state chairmen head uncommitted groups, but their persuasive powers may be lost on the individual delegates; many intend to vote their own consciences...