Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confident Jimmy Carter was speaking last week at a press conference in Washington, but his words were carrying 5,000 miles to an attentive audience in the Kremlin. "It is very important that the strength of the presidency itself be recognized as deriving from the people of this nation," he said. "When I do speak, I don't speak with a hollow voice, [but] I'm strongly supported by the Congress and the people...
...criticized for taking "issues-that affect foreign policy directly to the people." There has been concern that his public statements on arms limitation talks and the Middle East have gone too far, that they could impede diplomatic negotiations. But Carter remains convinced that by sharing the business of the nation with the nation, he can win both public and congressional support and strengthen his own hand in foreign affairs. Said he: "It is good for us, even in very complex matters, when the outcome of negotiations might still be in doubt, to let the members of Congress and the people...
...present danger is that a candidate could lose the nationwide popular vote and yet still end up in the White House. Precisely that has happened three times before-John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888. Indeed, in 22 of the nation's 48 presidential elections, the winner has had an uncomfortably close call. The latest, of course, was Carter, who had a 1.7 million vote plurality, but would have lost in the Electoral College if only 9,245 votes in Ohio and Hawaii had swung to Gerald Ford...
...what end? Proponents of the project tout it as the salvation of what is now one of the nation's poorest regions. Mississippi Senator John Stennis calls Tenn-Tom "the greatest economic milestone since the Louisiana Purchase." Says Alabama Governor George Wallace, who detonated the first blast of dynamite inaugurating Tenn-Tom: "I'll do everything in my power to see that this worthwhile project is carried through to the finish." Already $189 million in federal funds has been spent...
Since Mrs. Gandhi imposed authoritarian rule so effortlessly in June 1975, many friends of India had sadly concluded that the nation's rural masses were preoccupied with matters of food and livelihood and cared little about such transplanted blessings of a democratic society as freedom of speech, assembly and the press, and due process under the law. In what may well have been the world's most important elections since World War II, the Indian masses demonstrated eloquently that this...