Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace was more appropriate to October 1980. There was Jimmy Carter zipping from an S.R.O. press conference in Washington to Albuquerque, San Diego, and then back to the White House for a two-hour weekend phone-in that was broadcast by National Public Radio. Back in the capital barely long enough to refuel Air Force One, he will be off politicking again this week-in Kansas City, Chicago and Boston...
Carter's press conference ended a hiatus of nearly three months, despite his promise on taking office to hold two such Washington meetings a month. In an auditorium jammed with eager reporters in the Executive Office Building, the President seemed uncommonly wary. He passed up any opening statement and virtually challenged his inquisitors to try to pull any news out of him. With the Florida caucus a few days off, they responded by focusing eleven of their 19 questions on the 1980 presidential campaign and on the allied theme of the nation's economic health...
...hurting his own image as a strong leader, Carter spiritedly defended her "very strong role" in public life and her political campaigning. Needling reporters a bit, he claimed that Rosalynn had not notably stepped up her public appearances from a year ago, but "the difference is that now the press is paying attention to where my wife goes and what she says...
While the President was crisscrossing the country, Vice President Walter Mondale was also on the road, seeking money and support for 1980. His loyal labors in St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh became a touch less onerous in light of one of Carter's press conference statements. Asked who his running mate might be next year, the President did not duck the question. Said Carter: "Fritz Mondale and I have a very good partnership and I have no plans whatsoever to change...
Carter and his supporters were more cautious, though they began to smell success toward the end. At his press conference, the President described the upcoming vote as "significant," and a Carter backer predicted that he would win 65% of the vote. But one staffer admitted: "We'll be happy with a victory...