Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Underlying all specific issues as the full-scale campaigning begins, and with less than three months left until the first key test in the Iowa caucuses, are the role and power of the Government the candidates want to lead. On the Republican side, there is a considerable harmony of views about reducing the size and influence of the Federal Government, lowering taxes, unfettering the private sector of the economy and increasing industrial productivity. Republican candidates are also generally calling for much heavier defense spending and a more aggressive, bolder stance by the U.S. in foreign affairs. These candidates frequently note...
...symbol of another element in the 1980 race: its length. The spot was one of the earliest national television advertisements ever purchased for a presidential race. But network executives have had to refuse to sell larger chunks of time to Reagan and Carter, saying that they do not want to give candidates access to the nets until 1980. Last week the Carter-Mondale Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging the networks with denying them reasonable access to air time...
...skilled photographer, Baker realizes that he must get his sometimes fuzzy political image into sharper focus. During the uproar over the Soviet brigade in Cuba, he attacked Carter for not responding vigorously, but then refused to say what action he felt should have been taken. "He doesn't want his hands tied," says his campaign manager, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar. "He will have to do better in getting across his point of view in a shorthand statement...
Almost everywhere the campaign train stopped in the fall of 1952 crowds chanted: "We want Mamie." Nobody was more startled by the cheering than Mamie Doud Eisenhower, the quiet, self-effacing woman who lived for her famous husband and had no appetite for public life. "Ike fights the wars," she said. "I turn the lamb chops...
...never did. "I think Ike speaks well enough for both of us," she explained. Ike, in turn, described Mamie as "my invaluable, indispensable but publicly inarticulate lifelong partner." In later years, Mamie responded to women's liberation by saying: "I never knew what a woman would want to be liberated from." A lifetime of stern inner discipline and outward amiability ended last week when Mamie died at 82 after a stroke...