Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision." And we had extraordinary success in Georgia. If you tone down or are reticent or timid about what is proposed just because of political expediency, you rob the whole process of much of its strength. The simplicity of it, the completeness of it, the obvious advantage to the nation of the changes -these are your major selling points. And if you throw those away on political deals ahead of time, then what you offer to the American people is not nearly so attractive...
...specifics. I hope to estab-lish, as best I can, a position where our country is the leader of the world, based not on military might or economic pressure or political persuasion but on the fact that we are right and decent; that we take a position with every nation as " best we can according to what is best for the people who live there. I strongly favor majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. I plan to let that be known to the world...
Plains is customarily a pretty serious workaday kind of world, but for this day the town was roped off from reality. The townsfolk, who believed in Carter back when the rest of the country laughed, had been preparing for the historic event for days. Bank Manager Marvin Nation was tacking up bunting on his building. Billy Carter was leaning on a red pickup truck, giving an interview to a reporter from Rio de Janeiro. The ladies of Plains, in best Southern tradition, had baked up a storm. Rosalynn Carter's mother produced her choice butternut cake a day early...
Maybe that was Ford's final legacy to this nation-a transition of power so tranquil that nobody in Washington felt compelled to take to the street in his anguish. They had stood in muted knots by the hundreds after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson took over the office and went about his duties on the night of Nov. 22, 1963. It was a nightmarish time of conflicting emotions in the world of power. There is the chance that now, after 13 long and often painful years, our political system is finally returning to something like normal...
...announced that he would not seek office again, forced out by protest over the war in Viet Nam. People gathered at the White House gates then to wonder about the future. Again they came by the thousands on the night of Aug. 8, 1974, when Richard Nixon told the nation he would leave office, a final great convulsion in that dark era. People cheered and wept and peered through the iron bars at the graceful facade that means so much to this nation...