Word: swings
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...that is just what the nation's First Lady did last week as she began an ambitious, 13-day swing through seven Caribbean and Latin American countries. By phone, she regularly reported to her husband who-as always -was proud of her performance. Jimmy Carter predicted confidently that the foreign leaders she meets "will be both surprised and pleased at what she knows and how close...
Mondale was back from Europe, Young from Africa. Vance was home from Geneva but getting set to fly to Paris. Blumenthal was in Tokyo. Bergland was packing for the Far East. Rosalynn was off on a seven-nation swing through Latin America. The President was delivering his most comprehensive speech on foreign affairs, entertaining an important leader from abroad and holding a press conference at which all but four questions focused on foreign policy...
...Lady of the U.S. as a full-fledged spokeswoman for her husband's foreign policies?which they sometimes find puzzling? "I really can't think of her talking substance," remarked one Latin American ambassador last week as Rosalynn Carter finished boning up for a two-week, 12,000-mile swing through seven countries. If Mrs. Carter does try to get down to serious business, he warned, "there well could be resentment on our part." Added a Brazilian diplomat: "You know how we feel about women...
Signs of a spreading Burnsian influence in the Carter camp have been multiplying. As some Carter watchers have been telling it, the Chairman, as Burns is known, was a major influence behind the President's apparent swing toward more conservative budget policies. By some accounts, the Federal Reserve chief's arguments had a big role in persuading Carter to withdraw his proposal for an $11.4 billion tax rebate -framed by Liberal Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser. And when Carter invited congressional leaders to a White House breakfast to try to sell his tightfisted fiscal...
...President radiated enthusiasm and confidence as he set off on a hectic five-day swing, the first trip abroad since he took office. His itinerary included at least three multilateral conferences, tête-à-têtes with about a dozen heads of government, assorted airport statements, and carefully phrased toasts at lavish state banquets...