Word: nationalizes
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Methodically and skillfully, the President went about his task last week. He first explained the urgency of the energy shortage to the nation in an earnest televised talk from the Oval Office, then revealed what he intended to do about it in another prime-time address to Congress, and finally gave reporters a chance to pick his plan apart at a televised press conference. (Asked at the press conference if all this did not amount to overkill, Carter confessed: "There is a danger of overexposure. But this has been an extraordinary week...
Carter called the U.S. "the most wasteful nation on earth," adding: "We waste more energy than we import." Claiming that "we can't substantially increase our domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs," and we would "constantly live in fear of embargoes." There would be pressure "to plunder the environment" in a crash program to expand nuclear plants, strip mining and the drilling of offshore wells. Regions within the U.S. would compete with each other for supplies. "Inflation...
Most Republicans withheld comment this soon in the legislative battle. A few indicated that the fight would not be completely partisan. Declared Illinois Senator Charles Percy: "It's the greatest challenge any peacetime President ever gave the nation, and I don't think it's going to be as unpopular as the President says. He's in line with the underlying thinking of the people. The country wants leadership." Democratic Congressman Morris Udall likened some of the protest to imaginary congressional reaction on the day after Pearl Harbor: "You interviewed the Congressman from Detroit and he said, 'The Japanese attack...
Percy may be right: people throughout the nation may be ahead of Congress in their willingness to put personal interests aside for the larger good. A special ABC News/Harris poll taken after Wednesday's address showed that Carter's popular approval had actually risen by 3%, to 69%, since he revealed his energy program, instead of falling by the 10% to 15% he had predicted. An impressive 86% agreed with him that the energy shortage was serious. By margins ranging from 2 to 1 up to 8 to 1, Americans supported most provisions of his plan. Most favored...
Surveying the nation, TIME correspondents found that those 1973 gasoline lines forced by the Arab boycott, and the plant and school closings caused by natural-gas shortages last winter, had not receded as far in public memory as many skeptics had thought. The support for Carter's crisis-mood approach cut broadly across partisan and regional lines. A surprisingly prevalent refrain was: "I'm all for it, but most other people won't go for it, and Congress will kill...