Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...axioms were demolished by Carter's flinty will power, his almost arrogant self-confidence, his instinct to ask his listeners to "trust me" and his fetching promise to give them "a Government as good and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." The talk about trust and love sounded too vague to many. But he was a candidate of the 1970s, and he knew that the voters were more concerned about the overriding issue of moral leadership than about the big-spending liberal programs of the 1960s. He did more than just defeat a dozen other Democrats...
...Carter plans to place his holdings in the family farm, warehousing and land business in a trust, though its nature has not yet been decided. In 1975 the firm grossed $2.5 million, and Carter said his net worth
Among other attributes he will bring to the U.N. are a fine speaking style, an attractive family (he has four children) and an indefinable quality that makes people trust him. Also diplomatic experience in the harshest sense. As he once put it: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiation is better than fighting...
...trust him and think he trusts me. I said matter-of-factly that for me to be effective in that role I had to maintain a certain amount of integrity and sometimes independence. If I ever lost that, I wouldn't have anything to contribute to his Administration...
Conservatives Weidenbaum and Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago, argue that any tax cut should be permanent. Such cuts, says Weidenbaum, would "serve as a useful restraint" on proponents of "vast new expenditure programs." At the same time, he says, permanent cuts would encourage consumers to spend more money over the long run because they would have more money to keep. Monetarist Sprinkel concurs, but questions what real good any tax cut will do. "We have a $1.8 trillion economy," he says. "If anybody thinks a $10 billion or $12 billion change in taxes will...