Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would do everything I possibly could with homes for the elderly. We will be ready, I think, between the election and the end of the year, to evolve-again with the leaders of the entities that are concerned-a fairly comprehensive approach toward transportation and energy and welfare reform...
...your hope that the tax-reform proposals would be formulated by the time Congress opens...
Watson's staff prepared inch-thick option papers on such issues as national health insurance, tax reform, the FBI. Watson wanted true options, not advocacy papers. A man to whom the shadings of language are terribly important, he often bounced back reports with blunt notations like: "This is an unsupported essay. Start over...
...Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform. After the convention, with some polls giving him a lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home in Plains, he spent more time working out what he would do once in the White House than what he would...
Probably not for 1980-unless Jimmy Carter turns out to be a singularly inept President, suffering foreign reversals, mismanaging the domestic economy and defaulting on his many reform promises. But what are the Republicans' longer-range prospects? There is surely a conservative strain in the country, but it is not easily exploited. The older "social" conservatism that was a reaction against radicals and the counterculture is fading. Economic conservatism-limited Gov- ernment spending to avoid inflation, no social programs that would cost middle-income people too much money-remains powerful. But against this must be weighed such general...