Word: timed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There began in the White House what one Carter confidant calls "a circular process." From early morning until pillow-talk time, the President accumulated information and ideas that demanded yes or no. He repeated the routine each day. The number of suggestions and ideas increased. Suddenly, admits a Carter aide, they found the President had more things he could do-more power-than he had believed. The process fed on itself. Confidence and enthusiasm grew. Iranian oil imports were ended, assets were frozen, allies badgered, the U.N. pressured, a fleet moved. Two weeks ago, the plan to get observers...
...conference. A long table held a portable public address system. The candidate's campaign brochures were stacked neatly. It was just one of thousands of such meetings between reporters and presidential candidates this year and next. But this one last week was different. The only reporter present was TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks. His report...
...Pressler has been running for public office and winning. Now he is going for the big brass ring of American politics. Says fellow South Dakotan George McGovern: "People will think there is something in the water out there that makes us all want to run for President all the time...
...presidential candidates, and ambitious men are not unknown in its halls. Many look around at their colleagues and decide, in the words of one incumbent: "If he's good enough to run for President, then, by God, so am I." But Larry Pressler has not even had time to take a good look around. He has yet to finish his freshman year...
...press conference continued, Pressler rattled on about why he should be elected. Outside the large windows of the tennis club, players looked in curiously from time to time to see what the lack of fuss was all about. Finally it was over. Larry Pressler set off to conquer other worlds, and Alexander Hamilton pulled the plug on his gasohol still...