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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confused, uncertain, unpredictable. The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed; the rise of passionate single-issue politics, the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult. It is a time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement and government reorganization, treating each one methodically and with an almost unheard-of degree of presidential attention to detail. He has also been willing to try bold...
Much of the ambitious Carter program remains of course unfinished or, in some cases, set aside as politically and economically unfeasible. His grand schemes for welfare reform, for instance, were shunted aside in Congress and are probably dead. His promised national health care program has been scaled down because of its potentially huge costs...
...Republican career, however, was just getting launched. He joined the Eisenhower Administration to help set up the new Department of Health, Education and Welfare. His zeal for the task pleased Ike but not the party's right-wingers, who began to make trouble for the free-spending newcomer. Frustrated in his bold designs, Rocky decided that he needed to build his own political base. Few Republicans wanted to challenge New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman in 1958. Rockefeller was the answer to the state party's prayers: a new face with plenty of cash. Then came...
...units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, and 348 sewage-treatment plants, which have effectively reduced pollution in the upper Hudson. His most controversial construction was the $1 billion-plus Albany Mall, an immense Brasilia-like complex to house the state government. It was denounced as "Rocky's Erector Set," but it is now a favorite of government workers and tourists alike...
...set the year 2000 for attaining modernization. Is that a date of symbolic convenience, or does it have a rationale? Does China know how to plan that far ahead...