Word: presiden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem at least the Presiden had surely solved as he prepared to go before the TV cameras. At Camp David he complained that he had been losing his audience. Some 80 million people had watched his first fireside chat on energy in 1977, he recalled, but only 30 million had tuned in for his fourth, last April That was scarcely the trouble Sunday night. However unorthodox his method Carter had seized the nation's attention He and his aides knew he had taken a gigantic gamble. If he failed to capitalize on this chance to assert his leadership, he would...
...welcomed outgrowth of presidential summitry. As Nixon relaxed last week in San Clemente, swimming and toning up his suntan, he demonstrated once again the tremendous power of an incumbent President to shape events and influence opinion. That simple circumstance remains perhaps the most important fact of life for the presiden tial candidate emerging this week from Miami...
...sweeping economic policy prepared for councils that will debate for months what he announced to the world in a few minutes. Out of their discussions may emerge more permanent prescriptions for the plight of the dollar abroad and the blight of inflation at home than anyone-even a Presiden-could impose by any kind of personal fiat...