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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark said that the new attempt to measure personality traits on the medical test is analogous to the U.S. Air Force's effort to select bomber pilots through psychological examinations during World...
...Mexico--Most of the Senators who served on the Select Committee on Watergate benefited from the national television exposure they received. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Joseph M. Montoya, however, did not turn in a particularly stellar performance, and he may pay3
...downright angelic. Both avoided the kind of fatal gaffe that inspires a politician's nightmares. The verbal slips were slight. Old Football Player Ford began to predict improved economic prospects for "the fifth quarter" and quickly checked himself. Carter, often accused of changing his mind, said he would select Supreme Court Justices "who would most accurately reflect my own basic political philosophy as best I could determine...
...does no good to marvel at the income levels of a group of women here or there, or at the new job advancement opportunities for women. These things are pleasing and somewhat encouraging if you happen to be one of the select few to whom they apply. But they do not fundamentally change the relationship of women, or any other group, to society...
Indeed, Dole's greatest asset on the stump has turned out to be his humor. But Ford did not select Dole as his running mate just for the laughs he might bring. A former G.O.P. national chairman, Dole can peel skin as well as tickle ribs. Dole accuses Carter of vaulting ambition and questions his "weird performance, his judgment" in the wake of the Playboy interview...