Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branches of Government in the freshly carpeted chamber of the House of Representatives, flanked by TelePrompTers and with a huge American flag as a backdrop, Jimmy Carter was a President with a heap of problems-and a rare opportunity. After a disappointing first year, his ability to inspire the nation was in doubt, and his popularity was continuing to slide in the polls. The ABC-Harris poll placed his approval at 41%; a CBS-New York Times survey gave him a 51% rating. Yet the annual rush of late-January presidential messages, from the State of the Union speech...
Citing the lack of any "single overwhelming crisis" facing the nation, he presented a modest vision of Government's role in relatively tranquil times that may be more in keeping with what the people want than his increasingly outspoken critics realize. But whether the speech could achieve its main aim of building confidence in his ability to manage the U.S. economy remained open to question...
...main theme, Carter's address went far beyond his Inauguration-speech views on the limited capability of even a President to instill a new spirit in the nation. He broadened that philosophy this time, declaring: "Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation, or save our cities or cure illiteracy or provide energy . . . We simply cannot be the managers of everything and everybody...
...President believes that you cannot put off problems simply because there is no national consensus; his duty is to act, to lead and to bring this nation face to face with the troubles it must overcome," Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell told a crowd of about 750 people at Boston University's Morse Auditorium, last night...
DIED. Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, ebullient former Vice President and longtime Senator from Minnesota, who became the Democratic Party's liberal spokesman; of cancer; in Waverly, Minn, (see NATION...