Word: policiesâ
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...what to make of it all. Should they just lay on the customary round of frozen-smile receptions, exquisitely gallant introductions to dignitaries, and hurried side trips to orphanages? Or should they treat the First Lady of the U.S. as a full-fledged spokeswoman for her husband's foreign policies???which they sometimes find puzzling? "I really can't think of her talking substance," remarked one Latin American ambassador last week as Rosalynn Carter finished boning up for a two-week, 12,000-mile swing through seven countries. If Mrs. Carter does try to get down to serious business...
...needs for developing domestic supplies, expanding industries and raising capital. They would also attempt to project how many cars, houses and tons of wheat, steel, paper and other products the economy would demand. Then they would propose guidelines?tax and investment incentives as well as broader monetary and fiscal policies???for meeting those goals. Whenever the President or Congress floated major legislation, they would estimate its effects on prices and jobs...
Most notable among the Administration's activities has been the all-out use of former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans to badger money out of corporate executives whose profits were once influenced by his departmental policies???and would be again if he were to return to the Cabinet after a Nixon reelection. Cynical, too, was Stans' frantic drive to round up more than $10 million in donations before a new law would make public the identity of the donors, and in spite of Nixon's pious pronouncement that disclosure would "guard against campaign abuses and work to build
...dying. As Historian Lacouture pointed out last week, the key men in Hanoi today are "the executors of Ho Chi Minh's political testament, which really is an appeal to resist to the end." If they are faithful lieutenants, they will not be quick to abandon his policies???or his dreams...
...Briand is the master parliamentarian of Europe. He knows when to yield even his peace policies???temporarily. As his famous 'cello voice swelled out over the agitated throng Senators were gradually lulled. In the end they cheered the Master to the echo...