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...energy and the Panama Canal, Carter attempted to prod Congress toward accepting his proposals...
...free system, no President can control the $2 trillion U.S. economy, but it can be guided and nudged. To date, Carter has been inconsistent on a number of issues; his on-again, off-again proposals for tax rebates and "reform," for example, have eroded business confidence. Both the Panama Canal treaty and the SALT talks have inched fitfully along under previous Administrations; Carter has pushed them hard but has sometimes acted prematurely, failing to soften up opponents in Congress-or the Kremlin...
...Carter's problem has been to assert his leadership when it counts. Having tried to do too much too fast, he has ended up accomplishing too little. He failed to concentrate on a few key issues such as energy and the Panama Canal treaty, and thus dissipated much of his influence. He did not build the necessary crucial bridges to Capitol Hill; nor did he have the experienced staff to help. He often seemed to bog down in detail and yet to slight the routine requirements of the job, such as sometimes twisting congressional arms. He has not demonstrated...
...participate in the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count. The object: to identify and tally as many varieties and numbers of birds as possible on a given day. This year's count involved some 33,000 people, from Nome, Alaska, to as far south as Panama and Venezuela. When all their figures are added up, more than 1,300 species of birds will have been counted...
Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter reasoned together a bit last week in the very Oval Office that one had wrested from the other. They gripped, grinned, patted and chortled over their special memories, plugged the glories of America and the new Panama Canal treaty, and reserved the right to gentlemanly argument just as soon as they parted. Indeed, that night, as Jimmy jitterbugged at a White House press party, the tuxedoed Ford in another part of town found a few things to quarrel over in the Carter record. Yet when Jerry flew off to Vail for the holidays, he complimented...