Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar plunged around the world, and America's friends abroad asked ever more worried questions about what the President was attempting to achieve, and at what risk to America's stability. Across the U.S., a people who had at first been bewildered by the President's unprecedented ten-day "summit" at Camp David, then relieved by his forceful speeches on energy, which tried also to set a high national purpose, could only ask: Now what...
...days leading up to his stunning shakeup, Carter had dropped hints about what he had in mind. At Camp David, he remarked to reporters that he was thinking of changing the "structure of my Cabinet." During his TV address on Sunday, he recalled the warning of one summit participant that some Cabinet members "don't seem loyal" and that there "wasn't enough discipline among your disciples...
...weekend, the shaken capital was still groping for a satisfactory explanation of Carter's approach to the firings. His top aides insisted that his mass Cabinet changes, like the Camp David summit, was Carter's way of getting back to the unconventional political style that had worked so well for him during the 1976 election. And so was his attack on the Washington establishment as an "island." Said an aide: "Our biggest mistake has been to operate too traditionally. Policies and programs are not enough. We knew it. We based our campaign on that. But when...
...talked to his summit guests, the President repeatedly described his deep feelings and grave concerns. A sampler...
Last week, as he ended his domestic summit at Camp David, no one was more aware of the problem at DOE than Carter himself. One solution being discussed: to create an energy emergency board to expedite projects that DOE has been handling and a separate Government corporation to oversee the production of synthetic fuels. Said a top DOE official: "If they do all that, we might as well close up shop over here...