Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously, the black judgment of Carter is not unanimous, and is subject to change. And since Carter's appeal crosses racial lines, it may suggest that black and white constituencies are no longer so opposite as has been supposed. Sums up Harvey Williams, a black politician: "The blacks are getting tired of all the promises by Northern liberals. They respect Carter's sound position. It's a matter of credibility-in all groups, including the blacks...
...talked openly of suicide to his trusted aide, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. "You fellows in your business," Nixon told the temporarily retired general, "you have a way of handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol in the drawer. I don't have a pistol." It was, suggest the authors, "as if he were half asking to be given one." After that incident, Haig passed orders that Nixon not be allowed any pills, fearing he might take an overdose...
...could the U.S. deal with further Cuban adventurism? Kissinger is certain to be asked that repeatedly next month when he begins a two-week African tour that will take him to eight or more countries. Some American observers suggest that Kissinger's tough talk on Cuba might be aimed partly at countering domestic critics who charge that he has been too soft on the Soviets in his pursuit of détente. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Kissinger tried to temper the stir created by his most recent pronouncements. He said: "There...
...aide: 'It looks as if Reagan is a Ford plant.' " Campaigning at week's end in North Carolina, Ford declared that he will win the G.O.P. nomination whether Reagan withdraws his candidacy or not, and flatly denied that he had authorized anyone on his staff to "suggest to my opponent that he ought to get out of the race." Ford did avow, however, that Reagan's continued efforts could have a divisive effect on the party...
...aging John Sparkman's Alabama Senate seat in 1978? "Naw, I don't want to go to Washington to sit in the Senate." Surely there must be something he could do. "Maybe write some. Think I could write some?" Somewhat kindly, the reporter did not suggest that words tumble far more effectively from Wallace's mouth than from his little-used...