Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to one participant, Carter opened the meeting by "scolding the members for disloyalty." The President recapitulated his Camp David decision about asserting new leadership. He said that he would be altering his own "life-style." He said that he had appointed Jordan chief of staff and that there would be Cabinet changes. In the tense atmosphere that followed, Jordan announced that he too was changing his "life-style." Uncertain whether he was joking, no one laughed. Carter went around the table, ladling out criticism and praise. He told Young that several people at the Camp David summit had severely...
...moment Jimmy Carter took office, Europeans and many other non-Americans were deeply suspicious of his moralistic preachments and skeptical of his political wisdom. With a combination of fascination and dismay, they read his shifting pronouncements on energy, human rights and monetary policy. They were disturbed by his folksy style, his reliance on a rather young and unworldly circle of advisers from back home, and his insistence on pushing his family to the foreground. Rosalynn's role in White House decision making was unsettling, and Amy's tagging along on state visits seemed inappropriate...
...contradiction fundamentally rest on the President's Janus-like attitude toward the Government's role in the economy. On the one hand, he shares the public's rising distrust of Washington-dictated solutions for inflation or energy. Yet his concrete policy proposals usually involve 1960s-style programs that require big spending and larger bureaucracy. Last week's energy program would mean two new bureaucracies and $141 billion more federal spending. And as the election approaches, Carter may be tempted to reach for even more Big Government solutions to prove his effectiveness and leadership ability. Said...
...arrival of Bill Miller in the elegant third-floor corner office of the Treasury Building will lead to some changes in style. He is the kind of "team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates...
...months of his presidency. It is true that he was from the beginning a somewhat elusive figure. But at the center there was a man of regular habits, kindly ways and comfortable personal characteristics. He did warn us last week that he was going to change "my life-style and my way of working." But the events of this week represent more than that...