Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Feeling. By his smooth acceleration into high gear last week Ford helped create a mood of good feeling and even exhilaration in Washington that the city had not experienced for many years, imparting the promise, at least, of a brilliant spring after a grim, dark winter. In part, the euphoria was a reaction to the dying agonies of the Nixon Administration, and there were whispered postmortems. "I tell you," confided one high official, "those last hours with the [former] President were the most painful that I have ever had to go through." But it was also created...
...problems that trouble the U.S. today are complex and interrelated in unexpected ways. To plumb and analyze them, TIME Soundings will report quarterly on the mood, temper and outlook of Americans. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. The report differs from more traditional opinion polls in two respects: 1) Soundings not only measures shifts in public opinion but also tries to monitor the underlying trends that produce sea changes in public attitudes, and 2) the indicators are based on an amalgam of responses to hundreds...
Some of the reporters could not quite understand their own somber mood. Chicago Tribune Correspondent Jim Squires phoned an editor at his home office and said, "I've been fighting the guy for 18 months, but suddenly I can't get excited about his quitting." At the Washington Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee ordered his staff not to talk to outside journalists. The Post, pre-eminent leader in Watergate coverage, had made enough news. The conflict was over and now Bradlee wanted simply to report events. When a Women's Wear Daily reporter penetrated Bradlee...
...faith in White House leadership, and thus Government management of a sorely troubled economy, now stood at least a chance of being rekindled. "This is the best thing that could happen at the present time," says George Strichman, chairman of Colt Industries, a huge conglomerate. "There will be a mood of release, a feeling of Thank God, let's get going.' " Charles W. Moore, research director of William C. Roney & Co., a Michigan brokerage house, adds, "Any change has to be an improvement over the present...
Persistent Problems. But the relief was tempered by a realization that the transfer of power by itself would do little to solve the economy's persistent problems of rampant inflation, sky-high interest rates and declining output. Both sides of the mood were successively illustrated on Wall Street, where the Nixon years have been mostly bearish; though the Dow Jones industrial average hit its alltime high of 1052 in January 1973, at the beginning of last week it stood 180 points below its level on Nixon's Inauguration Day in 1969. In the first three days of last...