Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Steelworkers, in Atlantic City, Carter pledged that in "waging this war on inflation, I reject the politics of the past. I will not fight inflation by throwing millions of Americans out of work." He did not spell out a specific program, but in his new combative Camp David mood, he promised that it would be tough. "I will ask for restraint and for some sacrifice from all. I will ask you to consider what I will have to say with open minds and in a spirit of cooperation and patriotic concern...
...mood, the time, the issues, the place, the weather and providence conspired on that Maryland mountaintop to produce Carter's Middle East summit success. Those who watched him closely in the hours after the summit adrenaline stopped pumping saw at least two things. Carter had a genuine increase in self-confidence and what one participant described as a 'new maturity,' which in essence was an understanding of the bits and pieces of presidential experience collected over the past 20 months. At last he seemed to fuse them into a leadership device of his design...
SUNDAY, SEPT. 10. After Carter, Sadat and Begin tour Gettysburg battlefield in morning, Americans unfold proposals in marathon 5½-hour session with Israelis. Mood is more conciliatory because Begin is now responding to suggestions from Carter rather than from Sadat. But Begin still criticizes many points in great detail, then grows visibly tired after midnight. Carter patiently defends U.S. compromises, keeps the meeting moving. "Carter was incredible," Weizman says. "He never lost control of the meeting for a minute." Outside, says one official, the long Israeli-American meeting makes the Egyptians "nervous as hell." A few of them...
Carter meets Begin and hopeful mood ends. Begin insists Israel cannot accept principle of total withdrawal from West Bank and Gaza. But for first time, two written proposals ?one for general peace principles, one for separate Egypt-Israel treaty?are on table...
...Vance had finally helped score an important foreign policy achievement for the U.S., and he was justifiably proud. Wearing a sweater and slacks, he sat in the aisle talking to reporters for more than an hour. But as the plane flew eastward into the night the mood began to fade. And by the time the Vance mission ended some six days, three countries and 14,000 miles later, it was obvious that despite Camp David's great accomplishments, some major questions remained unanswered. What kind of peace was possible? Would the moderate Arabs eventually accept the summit proposals? How much...