Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while an anxious nation watched its television screens, the supremely confident Carter knew the way his personal winds were blowing. He awaited the returns in a starkly modern three-room suite in Atlanta's Omni Hotel?a posh setting that contrasted with the humble accommodations, often at the homes of supporters, that he had used as he began his once lonely campaign 22 months ago. At 11 p.m. he placed a call to Massachusetts' Congressman Tip O'Neill, who is in line to become Speaker of the House. In his soft drawl Carter said: "Tip, I feel confident now that...
...sense Carter had won in a year in which nearly any respectable Democrat should have triumphed. While Gerald Ford could hardly be held accountable, the Republicans had presided over a lingering end to the Viet Nam War, had both produced and been victimized by the nation's worst political scandal, had seen their party's President and Vice President resign in disgrace, and had held office during the deepest postwar recession. Ford had pardoned the man who appointed...
...thus a tribute to Ford's astonishing persistence, his own achievements in helping to pull his party out of the quagmire he had inherited, and his own basic decency that he ran as close a race as he did. It was also a measure of the nation's doubts about Carter that the race was so close...
Given his own limitations, plus the heavy baggage that the Republicans have had to carry since Watergate, Jerry Ford could hardly have done better. He will turn over to Carter the leadership of a nation that is far, far stronger politically and economically than when Ford inherited a discredited presidency from Nixon. Carter begins not only with that advantage but also, as an outsider, he is free of many heavy ob- ligations to special groups. He is fettered only by the growing awareness of the limitations of Government, and he promises to make it more "efficient" and "compassionate...
...sketch out the anatomy of the vote, TIME correspondents across the nation kept close tab on carefully selected, representative precincts on Election Night, interviewing voters and comparing the final vote tallies with those of previous elections. From their reports, the following analysis of key voting groups emerges...