Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born out of a personal concern for the country and his private political despair, Carter's exercise in group-think seemed destined, if successful, to recast his whole approach to leadership, the tone and emphasis of his Administration and, finally, American society. If not successful, then the singular twelve days in July might turn out to be a spectacular dramatization of just what is wrong with Carter's presidency -talk without understanding, programs without the means of implementation. When Carter finally came down to the Potomac valley last week, the question of what had happened was still delicately...
...Carter's approach to leadership, he has from the start differed markedly from his predecessors. He has been almost as much a suppliant as an authority, a man searching for an elusive consensus in town halls and along Main Street. He has walked more among the people than ahead of them. Thus, there were almost biblical overtones to the scene, described by the Camp David participants, of the most powerful man in the Western world seated at their feet...
...time now to move beyond that phase and take a road that will collide headlong with noisy minority interests. The late, infamous Jimmy Hoffa, prodded once about truth's being "somewhere in between," answered contemptuously and correctly, "The truth is where it's at." Leadership, too, is where it's at, and not necessarily in the middle...
...silver-haired six-footer with a deeply seamed face, Fraser, 62, retains the liberal's faith in the American people, but is vocal about his disenchantment with the nation's leadership. Says he: "The auto workers have a feeling that Government could screw up a two-car funeral. What you've got in the House of Representatives is 435 baronies-with a few exceptions -and it is almost as bad in the Senate...
...accuses Jimmy Carter of a lack of leadership, and he leans toward Ted Kennedy, whose views he shares on national health insurance, on legislation to prevent big company mergers and on the creation of a national energy corporation to compete with the oil companies in finding new sources, and developing them...