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During the debate, the chamber swarmed with gas-industry lobbyists, and Carter publicly warned the Senate against being swayed by them. Said he: "It is time for the public interest to prevail over special interest lobbyists." At a press conference later in the week, he softened his remarks, calling the lobbyists "well-meaning people" and saying of the Senators, "I am not criticizing them, but I think that as they hear the voice of the American people ... they will move to adopt the major parts of the program...
...William Rusher believes that Jimmy Carter is so conservative that he might even be worth supporting over a more liberal Republican. With the tide running in their favor, the challenge for the conservatives is to translate success with current, perhaps transient issues into an enduring political movement that will prevail at the polls...
...forthcoming U.S. treaty debate I know that President Carter now has a difficult mission, but I am also confident that the moral force of what is right will prevail. When your people are informed of the truth, they will come to know the injustice that was done here some 70 years ago, simply to provide passage for a U.S. merchant fleet. The American people are a moral people, and when they learn the size of the injustice, I believe they will support the new treaty...
...anchormen, in bouncing live pickups off satellites, in devising ever more elaborate news stage-sets-but what appear over the air are three lookalike, sedately animated versions of the New York Times. The professional news-gathering staffs of CBS, NBC and ABC have a caste solidarity. Their views generally prevail because the giant networks are concerned with prestige-and during most of the broadcast day, with game shows and trashy sitcoms, the networks do so little else to earn it. But at long last the sober world of network news is in for major change...
Carter's reaction to the other bills is less certain. He wants lower farm price supports than Congress: $2.90 per bu. of wheat, v. $3 voted by a House committee and $3.10 by the Senate. If the Senate levels prevail, a veto is possible, and it would probably not be overridden. The $61.3 billion labor and health, education and welfare bill, which provides $2.1 billion more than Carter wants to spend, is a closer call. If the President vetoes it, he will look like a flinthearted conservative to many liberals. The White House is divided over what...