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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the President was attempting to achieve, and at what risk to America's stability. Across the U.S., a people who had at first been bewildered by the President's unprecedented ten-day "summit" at Camp David, then relieved by his forceful speeches on energy, which tried also to set a high national purpose, could only ask: Now what...
...almost no one was prepared for what Carter set in motion Tuesday morning: the most thoroughgoing, and puzzling, purge in the history of the U.S. presidency.* His Cabinet had lasted intact longer than those of the great majority of Presidents: 30 months. It took him exactly 72 hours to rip it apart. Out went...
...President basked in the applause for a day and then, on Tuesday morning, he set in motion his astounding purge, undoing much of the good he had done himself. It began at a 9:30 a.m. staff meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room. Said Carter to his senior aides: "I didn't come to pat everybody on the back. Every one of you knows what you have done right. But there has not been enough done right." He thereupon announced Jordan's elevation to chief of staff and shortly afterward left the room. Forty-five minutes later, Carter...
After his appointment as Energy Secretary last week, Duncan, a proven team player and a warm but not close friend of the President's, declared: "The task ahead of me is clear, to implement an energy program that will accomplish the objectives set forth by the President." A vital part of that program, he added, is nuclear energy, which "is now playing and will continue to play a very substantial role...
...Supermarkets, too, can qualify for exceptions on the grounds that their perishable foods in open cases must be refrigerated; to raise the storewide temperature would mean having to increase the refrigeration, with little, if any, net energy conservation. Generally, it is not the thermostat in buildings that must be set at 78°; it is the recorded temperature in the warmest area of a centrally controlled set of rooms that must not be less than...