Word: politicization
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Serious Reform. Every four years, a nine-member commission of distinquished citizens is appointed to review salaries for executive-level federal employees who are political appointees, outside civil service. The last two proposals were turned down by Congress, which feared retaliation at the polls if it raised its own pay...
Carter was equally politic with the Republicans. He asked them to recommend candidates for Cabinet posts. He also impressed the Republicans with his vow that he would balance the budget.
Fallows did not jump at the chance to work for Carter, mulling over the late June offer for five or six days. He had to drop his writing projects--a piece for The New Yorker about the military and a book for Random House about class divisions in the United...
A nominating convention is sort of Ex-Lax for the body politic, a theater of ourselves, a legitimizing ceremony... We know that what we see is a 'media-event' and are smug in the knowledge. If Walter Cronkite takes it seriously, then we don't have to. His seriousness absolves...
Like most politicians, Carter is a professional collector of people. At one time or another, he has described as "good friends of mine" such retiring folks as Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Bob Dylan and Burt Reynolds. There is probably no more bizarre relationship in American politics...