Word: theres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For 34 months Jimmy Carter has been in training for these hours. There is nothing else that Presidents do that depends so much on the collected wisdom and the seasoned instincts of one man. Nor is there anything so lonely.
Those feet-up gab sessions, those earnest White House breakfasts that are so much a part of domestic politics, are of no account in a dilemma like Iran. It is almost pure decision making from dawn to dawn. There are meetings constantly, but there is always something oddly uncollegial about...
For all of the coziness of the White House, the men and women who come there for conference represent narrow interests in other parts of the Government. Only the President can define the national purpose and galvanize his people to pursue it.
The silence from Congress and the media has been deafening and gratifying. The word is that the President is upset at the timidity and hesitation of some of his foreign policy advisers, that he is disappointed in the reluctance of allies to give help more openly, that he is appalled...
Henry Kissinger once wrote that in almost every crisis there was never enough information available at the time action was required.