Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy, he's confident and he's optimistic about the future." Perhaps so, but a Harris poll last week showed just how few Americans feel optimistic about Carter. Fully 71% of those interviewed agreed that the President "may well not have the basic competence to do the job...
...doing a good job," said Carter, the forms "shouldn't bother anyone."* He later told his press conference that his action in promoting Jordan had been "one of the most grossly distorted of my career in politics...
...thought Jimmy Carter was just not a big enough man for the job of President. Oh, farmers never had such good prices. The oil companies were making plenty, said Ted. Look at everybody around the table-doing well. Why the complaining? That's what Carter was talking about, somebody noted with sympathy...
...least three people turned down the top Fed job: David Rockefeller of the Chase Manhattan Bank, A.W. Clausen of Bank of America and Robert Roosa of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. investment bankers. The final choice came down to Volcker and Bruce MacLaury, president of Brookings. When Carter phoned Volcker last Tuesday, the banker's main concern was to make sure that he and the President agreed on the independent role of the Federal Reserve. "I am satisfied on the basis of my conversations with the President that he has a good understanding of the problems," Volcker said later...
...access); he would take no part in Carter's re-election campaign; and he would not be an image shaper for the President. Donovan said he had been "very impressed by the sincerity with which the President described his need and the country's need for the job. It was difficult to resist such an appeal put on the grounds of public service...