Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter has found that the oil companies are not easily beaten in Washington, and he has compromised himself and his party in the process. "When the trumpet sounds an uncertain note, you don't know whom to follow," said Rep. Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.). Kennedy holds forth the promise of a more consistent, courageous and worthy leadership on energy issues...
Former Iowa Senator Dick Clark, an ambassador-at-large for refugee matters in the State Department, whom Carter had just designated as head of the new Cambodian relief effort, resigned last week to join the Kennedy campaign. Carter accepted the resignation with a snappish note. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told Carter three weeks ago that she would support him, according to John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but last week she announced her pledge to Kennedy. This gives the Massachusetts Senator an important advantage in the critical Illinois primary next March. Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund...
...further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly breaking with the powerful Prime Minister. Later, when Winston himself occupied No. 10 Downing Street, she did not hesitate to criticize him. During the worst days of World War II, word of his rudeness reached her. She dropped him a note: "I have noticed a deterioration in your manner; you are not as kind as you used...
...rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry of attacks on the nation's press, but the minister's own suicide note reviled a judicial system gone wrong...
...moreover, has fashioned what has begun to seem like a permanent alliance with show business itself. In season, the same names that decorate the gossip columns and Variety begin popping up in political chronicles. Last week a squiblet on Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a note about a Boston fund raiser for Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson...