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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a watershed period," Kennedy went on. "Recessionary pressures will be growing. Energy issues must be decided. New solutions must be found to the problems of the 1980s. We can't look back to old answers." Kennedy is beginning, gradually, to delineate his differences with Carter. He disagrees, for example, with the President's analysis of the malaise in the nation. Said Kennedy: "People are not less compassionate and decent than they were. They are just more concerned with their families. Can they afford the oil to heat their homes? Can they afford food and housing...
...dawn along the Potomac River. James R. Schlesinger, ex-Secretary of Energy, former Secretary of Defense, former CIA chief, former AEC chairman, stands beside the marshes in a golden silence as old as earth. Mallards rise into the sun. Indigo buntings flit in the trees and goldfinches play below. Says Schlesinger with rare emotion, "Look, a long-billed marsh wren." He raises his binoculars, studies the scene for long seconds, breathing cool morning air, humbled by the beauty before him in a way that his old adversaries in power never succeeded in humbling...
Obviously, he does not think so. The old Rooseveltian compromise, in which Congress let the President meet emergencies, has broken down. Today, Congress demands an equal voice. Right now Schlesinger sees our constitutional system as a road map to frustration. "It may require an external shock to set it straight," he says. "It may be a major foreign policy setback, and then the public will insist that we have cohesion in Government. I just hope such a shock is not fatal. The 1980s will be a tune of severe peril...
...election. Certainly he is far ahead in the polls. The Harris survey shows him leading Jimmy Carter, 51-44 (while Reagan's principal Republican opponent, John Connally, trails the President, 44-52). Therefore his staff is creating what it calls an "expanded" or & "more reflective" version of the old Reagan. Says his national political director Charles Black: "We must demonstrate that this guy is practical and has the ability to run the country. We will be offering solutions, not just criticisms...
...casket was covered with yellow roses, lilies and daisies. Among the 200 mourners at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris were her three ex-husbands. So ended last week the tragic story of Actress Jean Seberg, who was plucked out of obscurity as a 17-year-old Iowan to star in Otto Preminger's 1957 movie Saint Joan, and who died at age 40 in the back seat of her car of an overdose of barbiturates. But even as she was buried, there unfolded in the U.S. an appalling account of how the FBI in 1970 tried to ruin her reputation...