Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual basis, each of the dismissals was not surprising; a few had been long expected. But the sum total of them, and Carter's wholesale slaughter approach, damaged the brave new leader image he is trying so hard to create. At the very announcement of the mass resignations, Washington was rocked by rumors, the dollar plunged around the world, and America's friends abroad asked ever more worried questions about what the President was attempting to achieve, and at what risk to America's stability. Across the U.S., a people who had at first been bewildered by the President...
Congressmen and Senators of both parties were upset. Said a Democratic congressional leader: "The wholesale resignations smack of p.r. gimmickry, misplaced machismo. I thought that he had his ship pointed in the right direction, but..." Said House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "It's crazy. It's just like what Richard Nixon did in "72." Others were upset about the targets of Carter's purge. Said Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas: "Good grief! They're cutting down the biggest trees and keeping the monkeys...
...start young, inexperienced and fundamentally disorganized. Worse, its members came to Washington with chips on their shoulders about the city's entrenched political establishment. Jordan himself refused even to meet most of the Democratic congressional leadership. "I'm sure I've met him," Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd loftily remarked last week. "But I've never had a conversation with...
...then Byrd's turn. He told the Soviet leader that he himself was still undecided on the treaty. He added: "I want to give you today a candid appraisal of the prospects for the SALT II treaty in the Senate. It is my opinion that if there were a vote today, the Senate probably would not approve the SALT II treaty. But much can happen between now and the final vote." Byrd then made his first suggestion: "It would be a significant help in the area of verification if we could have an indication that you could agree...
...Israeli leader was obviously delighted by the warm reception accorded him in Alexandria Soon after his arrival he went to pray at the city's venerable Eliahu Hanabi Synagogue; it is the main center of worship for Alexandria's 200 or so-member Jewish community, which before the Arab-Israeli wars had numbered 40,000. Emerging from the synagogue, he was met by a throng of cheering Egyptians. To the horror of his security officials, Begin got out of his limousine to shake a few hands. Obviously moved, he later told Sadat: "I saw today the reality...