Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the obstacles, however, Rosalynn's drive and devotion shone through. Said Liz Carpenter, a Lady Bird Johnson aide who was at the Dallas dinner: "She's out selling with true grit a President in trouble. She says, 'I believe in Jimmy and I know you'll believe in Jimmy,' and by God she's good at it! The force of her conviction comes through." Said Dallas Political Consultant Judy Bonner Amps: "You can't help but like the woman. She's attractive, charming, intelligent and totally committed to Jimmy. People...
...this man Hamilton Jordan know anything? somebody asked. One of the boys in one of the town's shops had declared that everybody he knew believed Jordan was real horse's ass. After a loud guffaw the consensus was that Carter might be all right, but many of those people around him were just no good. The shop man said that he would never again vote for a man who did not have experience with Congress. Around the tables ni the back of the Ideal Café there were silent nods...
...Reserve Bank-have made him a comfortable member of the international monetary club, unlike Miller, who was little known in the world's money markets when appointed. Financier Robert Roosa says of Volcker, "There's nobody in the world of international finance that he doesn't know." When Volcker used the word discipline a dozen times in his short press conference last week to describe his view of proper Federal Reserve policies, the international banking community knew that his No. 1 concern would be to stabilize the dollar by fighting inflation...
...judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
WILLIAM BUCKLEY, conservative columnist and editor (National Review): There's no one that I know of who has the potential grip on the imagination of the American people that would be conclusive enough to cause everybody to say "there is a leader" in the sense, for instance, that F.D.R. was, like him or loathe him. There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout...