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...NATO nations to increase defense spending by 3% a year in real terms. Carter will have a hard time going back on that pledge. To honor it, he will have to raise the Pentagon budget from $114.5 billion to about $126 billion in the 1980 budget. OMB Director James Mclntyre and other advisers are arguing for a smaller increase. But if Carter goes along with their pleadings, he will further erode the confidence of U.S. allies who are worried about American resolution. He will also make it harder to pass a SALT II treaty since members of Congress will...
...volatile electorate fooled pollsters in a number of states. Pat Caddell, who handled Jimmy Carter's polling in 1976, assured New Hampshire Democratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre that he was leading Gordon Humphrey by 59.5% to 30%, with no signs of movement toward the Republican. Humphrey won, 51% to 49%. Respected Pollster Peter Hart found that incumbent Democrat Dick Clark was leading his conservative Republican opponent Roger Jepsen 57% to 27% in October. "We did not have it tight, and we did not have Jepsen moving up," says Hart. Jepsen beat Clark, 52% to 48%. In Kansas, one survey...
Carter's problems with Congress will undoubtedly be increased by the rightward shift among the incoming legislators. Again, the numbers are less important than the individual changes. The President lost five key liberal supporters in the Senate: Clark of Iowa, Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, William Hathaway of Maine, Floyd Haskell of Colorado, Wendell Anderson of Minnesota. As head of the African Affairs Subcommittee, Clark was a strong backer of the Administration's policy of pressuring the white powers in southern Africa to grant black majority rule. He was defeated by Conservative...
Republican Roger Jepsen, who made a campaign issue of his opponent's foreign policy. Senator Mclntyre, a member of the Armed Services Committee and a provisional supporter of SALT II, will be replaced by former Airline Co-Pilot Gordon Humphrey, who opposes SALT and says he plans to be the "biggest skinflint" in Washington. Haskell and Hathaway were two of the most liberal members of the Senate Finance Committee. A few mainstream liberals were elected to the Senate: Bill Bradley in New Jersey, Paul Tsongas in Massachusetts, Carl Levin in Michigan, Donald Stewart in Alabama. But they do not have...
...talked down the value of the dollar last year -a cheap dollar was supposed to stimulate exports. Carter might have foreseen that as the dollar fell, prices of imports would rise, lifting with them the prices of similar domestic products, from Wisconsin gorgonzola to Detroit subcompacts. Budget Chief James Mclntyre last January submitted a fiscal 1979 budget that projected a $61 billion deficit, even though the country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have recognized that this would be grossly inflationary-and that leaders of business and labor would post higher prices and press for steeper...