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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership ability. He apparently intended the mass resignations as a dramatic symbol of a fresh start, as Nixon had done at the beginning of his second term. But Carter's coup de theatre looked more like amateur melodrama. He could have fired the subordinates who displeased him with less trauma and far better effect on his image as an executive. But he nonetheless sought everyone's resignation, apparently not anticipating how the act would be perceived at home and abroad...
...president. Six years later, when the company was merged into Coca-Cola, Duncan moved to London as head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later because he wanted to go back to Houston. There he served as board chairman of an investment banking company, Rotan Mosle Financial Corp. until 1977, when he went to Washington. He works long hours at the office but occasionally escapes with his wife Anne, and sometimes their...
...common view abroad was that the President omitted the two key elements: decontrol of U.S. crude oil prices so that domestic gasoline and heating fuel prices would rise to world levels (Americans still pay less than one half as much for gasoline and fuel oil as Europeans) and an emphasis on expanding nuclear energy. Commented Switzerland's Journal de Geneve: "The President feared, not without reason, that decontrol would push U.S. inflation to an intolerable level. But that also would have been a return to truth in pricing, which is the basis of American capitalism...
Speakers did not only tell "scare stories." Many focused on less publicized issues in the movement, such as the role of unions and how and why it's important to get more non-white and older people involved...
Keith E. Butler '75, who will be a resident tutor at Leverett House next year, said he is pleased with the expenses he will be able to eliminate. Being a resident tutor has other advantages, he added, in that he will feel less detached from what is going on in the Harvard community...