Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even politically neutral observers felt the President had been badly hurt. Georgia Pollster Claibourne Darden predicted that, coming on top of the President's other problems, the Billy factor would be especially harmful. Explained Darden: "If everything was going fine otherwise, the reaction would just be 'It's his stupid brother,' but now Billy's image transfers to Jimmy." California Pollster Mervin Field felt that the Billy affair provides "a disturbing reminder" of the President's previous embarrassing friendship for wheeler-dealer Banker and White House Insider Bert Lance. "The Billy thing puts President...
Democrats immediately moved to turn the episode into an issue. Said Democratic National Chairman John White: "It was a massive foul-up, and it's going to hurt him deeply. It raises all kinds of questions about Reagan as a decision maker." But some more neutral political experts thought the contretemps would quickly fade. Said Jonathan Moore, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics: "I don't believe that it will make any difference come November. It is not an issue that will last...
...American politics and its practitioners. His interview with Senator Edward Kennedy last fall caught the candidate at his inarticulate worst and is possibly the most important work of political journalism of the entire campaign. On-camera, Mudd is soothing if somewhat stolid. For viewers who like someone more neutral than the electrifying Rather, Roger Mudd may some day be the man of the evening half-hour...
...summit, Carter was to urge the allies to give more support to the U.S. ban on sales of grain and high technology to the Soviet Union until Moscow withdraws its troops from Afghanistan. The European allies, which only a week earlier renewed their appeal for a "neutral and nonaligned" Afghanistan, have been unwilling to do much that might jeopardize their trade with the Soviets...
...expropriate from the expropriators. One gets the feeling that they would have found their way to crime anyway, as a suitable line for brave, hard men. The Pinkertons (led by James Whitmore Jr. in another good performance), who pursue them throughout the picture, are seen in much the same neutral light. Like the bandits, they make a number of deadly mistakes as they go along, and sincerely but briefly regret them...