Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, we've maintained the same theme for the last two years: that our people have been hurt and alienated by Viet Nam, Cambodia, Watergate, CIA, Angola and so forth. They've been withdrawing from participation in Government. They've lost trust in public officials, and it is time for a basic change. My own background outside Washington as a former businessman and a nuclear engineer qualifies me to go in and make those basic changes...
...Government for a change. The second is that the Government be sensitive to people's needs. We need someone in the White House who understands the problems and needs and hopes and aspirations of the average American family. And the third thing is a basic sense of integrity, trust...
...became the biggest issue of the 1976 presidential campaign. Jimmy Carter's TV ads describe him as "a leader, for a change." Gerald Ford's say of the President: "He has virtually a' lifetime of leadership." Closely connected with the issue of leadership was that of trust, the indispensable link between leader and led. Said Carter: "Trust me." Replied Ford: "It is not enough for anyone to say, Trust me.' Trust must be earned...
...been imprecise, subjective -and inevitable. It reaches far beyond the campaign. The turmoil of the 1960s and early '70s left a corrosive residue of apathy and skepticism that has eaten away at all major institutions. A report issued in September by the Public Agenda Foundation noted that trust in Government declined from 76% in 1964 to 33% today; that 83% of American voters say they "do not trust those in positions of leadership as much as they used to"; that confidence in Congress, the Supreme Court, business, college presidents, the military, doctors and lawyers dropped sharply from...
Some wondered whether the road to restoring trust lay in emphasizing leadership-or in deemphasizing it. Economist C. Fred Bergsten, 35, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, suggested that people may want "a stalemate system, not leadership. Is this because they are so turned off by current leaders that they are afraid to have anybody have too much control over their lives...