Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main theme, Carter's address went far beyond his Inauguration-speech views on the limited capability of even a President to instill a new spirit in the nation. He broadened that philosophy this time, declaring: "Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation, or save our cities or cure illiteracy or provide energy . . . We simply cannot be the managers of everything and everybody...
...arguments are difficult to summarize, but a constant theme of the book seems to be that those people who turn to the East...
...Texas, the Austin American-Statesman offered a variation on that theme. "Oh well," said an editorial, "one thing Carter doesn't have to worry about -he's too short to hit his head on helicopter doorframes...
...trusts that he did not see how, in the '70s, his great and characteristically American movie theme has been debased in this film...
...crown was given over to the Americans for trust and safeguarding until Hungary is really free again," says Leslie E. Acsay, president of Hungarian House in New York. "But Hungary is in the same position it was in 30 years ago-the Russians are still there." Echoing this theme, Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole has charged that Carter is engaged in a needless "knee-jerk" human rights effort. Dole sued in federal court to block Carter's move until the Senate approved, but last week a judge in Kansas City. Kansas turned him down...