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...utilizing the negative advertising tactics now common to the New Right. Its most significant victory was the 1980 election of archconservative John East to the second Carolina Senate seat. Although the incumbent. Robert Morgan, was no liberal, a blitz of last-minute television ads attacking his support of the Panama Canal Treaties, and to Niearagoa New York, and a few other conservative hobby horses made the guy seem like Tip O'Neill's left-hand...
...unwittingly manifests his lingering lack of street smarts when he describes the unusual carrots and sticks he held out to legislators for their votes on key legislation. He proudly reprints the text of a handwritten note sent to all congressmen who backed his controversial--and commendable--treaty ceding the Panama Canal back to Panama. This presidential thank you note, he suggests, exemplifies his efforts to cement relations with the Democratically controlled legislative branch...
...also shoulders some blame for America's disarray during his Presidency. And he does succeed in reminding us that his administration was not entirely devoid of accomplishments. In addition to Camp David, the former president deserves credit for tangible changes in U.S. affairs, at home and abroad; the Panama Canal Treaty, normalization of relations with China, the energy windfall profits tax, and civil service reform are only the most striking...
President Nixon dropped the U.S. requirement for a sea-level canal option, and U.S. and Panamanian negotiators drafted a treaty giving the present canal to Panama after 50 years of joint operation. Panama's leader, Omar Torrijos, insisted on the year 2000 as the turnover date and on U.S. relinquishment of post-treaty canal defense rights...
President Carter relinquished the requirement for post-2000 defense rights, thereby giving Panama all its original requests while the U.S. retreated from every one of its 1964 objectives...