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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sincere though she may have been, her own blind faith won few converts. In Chicago, her first stop, her address to the National Urban League included a long litany of Carter's black appointees, each name followed by the refrain "he [or she] happens to be black." The derisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Selling True Grit | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

In some ways her importance resembles that of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady since Edith Wilson took control of the White House for more than a year during her husband Woodrow's illness. Mrs. Roosevelt acted as a traveling observer for her crippled husband as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Selling True Grit | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

As he said in a speech he gave in England last November: "A stronger and stabler dollar is plainly in the interest of the U.S. and the world. These recent months have been instructive to all-a sliding dollar undercutting our own anti-inflationary effort, generating uncertainty at home and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Volcker to the Rescue | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Volcker to the Rescue | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Landrieu, who celebrated his 49th birthday last week, lives in an unpretentious house in the racially mixed neighborhood where he was raised in the rear of his parents' grocery store. Once again, he has been doing a little door-to-door campaigning. This time it is for his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Boisterous Builder for HUD | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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