Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They don't have the same responsibilities. We're expected to learn our lines, get the reporters steadied down, train the campaign managers and press secretaries, put up with the fellow who shows up with the sandwich sign and the Uncle Sam suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
Each side found satisfaction in the results. The meaning, as Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell saw it: "Anyone who wishes to challenge the President had better be prepared for a long, tough fight every step of the way." Added a Carter strategist: "This showed we're in good shape organizationally." But Sergio Ben-dixen, executive director of the Florida draft-Kennedy committee, saw a different significance: "We proved we have strength. But it's very tough to fight the incumbent without a real candidate. With him in it, we would have swept Florida...
...released last week showed that Carter is gaining among Democrats in trial heats against Kennedy. From a dismal 53%-to-16% deficit in July, the New York Times-CBS poll now places the President at 45% to 25% behind the Senator. Carter's approval rating in an Associated Press-NBC survey has risen to 24%, a climb of five points from a month ago. Better yet for Carter, this poll also disclosed that half of all Democrats now want him to seek reelection, a notable jump from...
...Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank in 1976 to keep Carter's media campaign alive, as some press reports had alleged. But less persuasive is Curran's conclusion that no banking or conspiracy laws were violated by the eccentric loan arrangements between Carter's warehouse and Lance's National Bank of Georgia. Curran's team found a quagmire of shoddy business dealings, inept management...
Kush, 50, has now gone the way of another legendary coach, Ohio State's Woody Hayes. Three hours before A.S.U. was scheduled to meet Washington, Kush called a hasty press conference and beat university officials to the punch in announcing that he had been fired. Like Hayes, whose roundhouse right to the throat of a member of the opposing team last season led to his dismissal, Kush was canned in the wake of reports that he too had struck a player...