Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter is a marvelous neighbor, friend and Sunday-school counselor. His White House after 3½ years is heavily flavored with the tiny routines of being nice. Grace at every meal, prayer and Bible reading, personal notes, Willie Nelson on the stereo, the leafy glens of Camp David, three miles of jogging in the cool summer mornings, Sunday school in the balcony of the First Baptist Church...
Thone then expressed what most of the party's insiders felt about Ford: "I don't think there's a prayer that Ford will accept." But if Reagan did want to push the idea, Michel offered some advice: "It ought to be on a one-on-one basis and not handled by staff, so there's no mistake. You bare your breast to him and tell him how it is. He appreciates forth-rightness." Without any hint of what he would do, Reagan said of Ford: "We are meeting later on today...
...speech at the cameras, knowing from his showbiz experience that subtlety of gesture is more expressive than exaggeration. Furthermore, he used Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in his address, implying that he, Reagan, was above partisan labels. And he concluded by asking America to bow its head in prayer--the implication being that he, Reagan, had not developed an overweening sense of vanity through the week of excessive praise and a schedule designed to make his victory more coronation than nomination...
...bill for a 30% tax cut over three years; called for more nuclear power and complete decontrol of oil prices; denounced the SALT II treaty as "fatally flawed" and demanded "military superiority" over the Soviets; urged the restoration of capital punishment; and appealed for the return of voluntary, nondenominational prayer in schools. All in all, said Platform Committee Chairman John Tower, the document represents "a rightward move" in keeping with the increasing conservatism...
...20th century, any world church still needs heroic examples of saintliness and the power of prayer, especially in countries outside Europe. It also needs saints chosen from the laity, to serve as role models in a time of doubt and secularism. Typically, though his cause has not yet been introduced in Rome, beatification proceedings are under way for Dr. Tom Dooley, the physician who operated a medical mission in Laos from 1956 until his death from cancer...