Word: specially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly of Vieit Nam vets, including Muller, Carter said that "the nation is ready to change its heart, its mind and its attitude about the men who had fought in the war.'' After admitting that not enough has been done "to respect, honor, recognize and reward [your] special heroism," the President said: "We love you for what you were and what you stood for-and we love you for what you are and what you stand...
Agreeing that more must be done to aid the veterans of Viet Nam, Carter has pledged to support extending the G.I. Bill of Rights and promised to push for special vocational rehabilitation programs for the disabled. Capitol Hill too has been demonstrating a new attitude toward the vets. One reason may be that the number of Viet Nam veterans in Congress now totals 19. Last week, after having rejected a somewhat similar Senate bill four times in the past eight years, the House voted 342 to 0 to appropriate $16 million for psychological, alcoholic and drug counseling for Viet...
...week offered stiff competition. There was Dr. Harvey Sloane, the articulate and capable former mayor of Louisville. Outgoing Governor Julian Carroll, whose administration has been tainted by scandal, was backing his former commerce commissioner, Terry McBrayer. Spunky Lieutenant Governor Thelma Stovall had strengthened her own candidacy by calling a special legislative session to consider tax cuts. As the pack turned into the home stretch, the mud started to fly. Governor Carroll took to the stump to attack Brown, once a close friend, whom he accused of refusing to release his income tax returns in order to conceal his gambling debts...
...something that has been relegated to a secondary position in the past," Carter said in 1976 while hot on the campaign trail. Since the campaign, Carter has pushed hard for a separate Department of Education within his overall plan to reorganize the federal government. In November 1977, his special study team presented him with three options for redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation of a Department of Education and Human Services; and (3) uplifting the status of the Education division of HEW. Carter opted...
...think of many names for the present system that scatters our educational functions into a series of jealously-guarded special interest domains, but efficiency is not one of them," Heftel told his colleagues. "We have created at the federal level an education structure so vast and so unwieldy and so fragmented that it is inherently incapable of bringing to our educational system the coherence it so desperately requires...