Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final security clearance. The second was a pleasure: a welcoming chat with Jimmy Carter. Since his arrival, Barrett has filed reports on a whirlwind of major stories that include the vote on whether or not to sell warplanes to Israel, and our in-depth study: "Jimmy Carter, the Leadership Question." This week his reporting provides the backbone of our Nation story about the President's edgy relations with Congress...
...other admirals, the veto would be sustained. Said House Majority Leader James Wright: "I voted for that carrier, but I thought the President made a good case." Agreed Liberal Democrat Morris Udall: "The big carrier has been a kind of sacred cow, and I credit the President with wise leadership on this...
Though he does not now possess power, he still studies, thinks about it. Almost as if by instinct rather than command, his mind seizes on new information and assembles it into strategies and tactics for international and domestic leadership...
...world beyond San Clemente and his family is still very central to Nixon's being. "I share the concern of many people in both parties and some national commentators regarding the deterioration of the American leadership position in the world," he says. But Nixon for the time being at least avoids direct public criticism of anyone in high office. He will begin to speak out more in the fall. He is planning a few speeches, and he has been invited by many foreign countries to come and visit...
...work on his next book. It will be about the future, what old lessons tell him about the next 20 years, how America must and can retain its world leadership, maintain its economic strength. He will write about the role of the presidency, enlarging on his feeling that the institution is not going to be dramatically changed and that Presidents must take the office as it is and determine events with their personal skills. When he wrote the current book, RN, of which 300,000 copies are now in print, the former President dictated 1.5 million words about events...