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...days ago and I could tell that he simply doesn't know how to nationalize. He's made this campaign pledge and now he's got to fulfill it. But I'm not sure his heart's in it." Other observers, however, are convinced that the full Socialist program???including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported...
When the Democrats returned to power with President John Kennedy in 1960, higher spending for HEW was on the agenda. Regulations were eased, and the cost of aid to families with dependent children ?the biggest welfare program???began to soar. When Johnson became President, HEW was transformed by the biggest growth of federal programs in the history of the nation...
This week, on his 91st day in office, Jimmy Carter will unveil his controversial energy conservation program???the most comprehensive ever proposed by a President. The energy package reaches from automobiles to attics and from vacuum cleaners to wellheads in an effort to end America's profligate use of energy. It is almost certain to ignite a firestorm of protest?and to provide Carter with his most difficult test as a politician and as Chief Executive. Predicts chief Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan: "This will be a measure of Carter's ability to lead the country. It is a greater test...
...economic-energy package better than the one that Ford himself has proposed. It could include bigger tax cuts than he has asked and an energy policy of gasoline taxes and tough conservation standards. The one outcome that seems impossible is continued drift. By proposing a sweeping and specific program???although one with grave flaws?and emphasizing the need for fast action, Ford has thrown down to Congress a challenge that it cannot ignore. A year or so from now, Ford might even be able to say?if he cared to borrow the phraseology of another Democratic President ?that...
...neither political activities, such as the President's re-election campaign, nor the maintaining of records for historical purposes?the ostensible aim of Nixon's taping program???is among the President's constitutional duties. Therefore they cannot be protected by Executive privilege. Nixon's legal position is weak (see following story...