Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...
Carter seemed to realize that he had repeatedly failed to reach the American people and mobilize public opinion to put pressure on a balky Congress. Among his critics, on the other hand, there remained a widespread belief that Carter himself had not provided the leadership the nation needs (see cover story). Now he was trying to change that The whole nature of the press conference was different. Not only had it been moved from the business-like Old Executive Office Building auditorium to the more ornate East Room, but it also was shifted from the customary mid-afternoon...
Another Columbia historian, Henry Graff, a specialist on the presidency, noted that some Presidents have been popular because they were father figures, like Eisenhower, or brother figures, like Kennedy, but "Carter seems like one of the boys on the corner. He doesn't appear to understand what leadership is. Making a change in his style is like a zebra opting to have spots instead of stripes-it doesn't make a significant difference...
...internal security. Its forces have not fought a major battle for about 150 years, although a few Thai units saw limited action in Korea and Viet Nam. While the Thai soldier would give a good account of himself if his country were invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that one local military specialist described as a "Jeep with a 76-mm gun on top." The illogical purchase...
...additional 45,000-member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...