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WASHINGTON--The impression is growing in this town that Jimmy Carter may well be a one-term President. Carter was recently quoted on the radio here as saying that when he is finished being President, he'd like to become a foreign missionary for the Baptist Church. It would be his goal in such a role, said the President, "to turn some country back to God and back to us." The President may get his chance to convert all those pagans out there before he thinks...
...Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor vehemently attacked Bateman's plan to replace the income...
...Word may not yet have reached the provinces, but in this capital, Mr. Carter is being talked of as a one-term President " The same day in the New York Times, Wicker re-examined his score card and hit the panic button: "People who think and talk about politics are beginning to ask^each other openly: Is Jimmy Carter a one-term President...
Lately that chamber has echoed with predictions that Jimmy Carter will be a one-term President. Since the thesis cannot be tested for three years, this bit of prophetic journalism deserves a closer look. For months the capital press corps had been reporting Carter's growing problems but seemed unable to get through to a public that regarded Carter as a nice guy who was trying hard. So commentators began raising their voices. The trouble is that to those who dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes...
Sure enough, that old fox John Connally, who'd like another chance at the White House, had earlier talked with Republicans in New Hampshire about a one-term Carter presidency. The A.P. dispatch may not have got much newspaper space, but it resonated through the capital echo chamber, which is always receptive to a new catch phrase...