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...Robert Shrum. former Carter speech-writer, said he thinks the problem of unsatisfactory press coverage originated when the candidates could not find a dominant issue on which to focus during the pre-election months...
...issues were complex and both the candidates and the media were at a loss as to how to evaluate them in a comprehensible way." Shrum said at the debate sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic club...
...drop his writing projects--a piece for The New Yorker about the military and a book for Random House about class divisions in the United States--and survey friends to see whether he would have difficulty crossing back into journalism afterwards. And he studied the charges of Robert Shrum, an ex-McGovern speechwriter who left his position with Carter with a blast about the Georgian's alleged two-facedness. After three months working for Carter, Fallows has concluded that Shrum's reaction was understandable but wrong. "Carter can be a curt, cold man," Fallows says. "But if you accept this...
Quick Buck. As his drive accelerated, Carter had to cope with two embarrassing incidents. One involved Robert Shrum, a disgruntled liberal and former McGovern aide, who quit as a speechwriter after only nine days on Carter's staff and accused the candidate of being manipulative and deceptive on the issues. In his letter of resignation, Shrum told Carter: "I am not sure what you truly believe in other than yourself...
Among other things, according to Shrum, Carter has indicated to intimates that he was having second thoughts about his pledges to suspend the B-l bomber program and to trim the Pentagon budget. Carter denied Shrum's charges, explaining that he still opposed the B-l bomber and would cut defense spending by $5-$7 billion in his first year as President but had never promised to continue to cut year after year...