Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't make a damn bit of difference where the President is, the White House or the banks of the Mississippi," Press Secretary Jody Powell snapped last week. But there was no way of avoiding the contrasting images. On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation 19th century steamboat, waving, dancing and playing a calliope, stepping ashore periodically to shake hands, dandle babies and try to sell his energy program. Back east his top foreign policy aides were engaged in public disputes over who was in charge of U.S. policy in the Middle East and over what...
...State Department." Mondale tried to be the peacemaker. The group stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning with the distraught Vance refusing to budge. Strauss periodically left the room while Jordan and Mondale tried to persuade the Secretary to see it the President's way. Vance, as ever the loyal compromiser, finally went along. "He was humiliated by it," said one close friend who knew Vance's private feelings, "especially the way Strauss was trumpeting around that he didn't report directly to State...
...help or hinder their candidate is another question. The Haydens' political philosophy seems to run counter to the conservative trend in America. There may be new interest in the Viet Nam War, but it is highly questionable that evoking the Haydens' approach to the conflict is a way to make political capital. Indeed, there is the very real possibility that stirring memories of the war may strengthen the revisionist beliefs of those Americans who feel that the conflict need not have been lost after...
...long arm of the law does not protect banks the way it used to. Local police forces have been reduced, and the FBI, which used to pursue robbers zealously, is now concentrating on the more costly phenomenon of white-collar crime in banks. That strategy is questioned by New York City Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire. A bank robbery, he says, "is a street crime that has an immediate impact on daily life." Few bank robbers end up in jail for long, which may be one reason that they commit a crime that does not pay all that well...
Reddy justified his move on the basis that it was the only way to bring in a government with a popular mandate. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had already informed him that she would not support Ram, and without the backing of her 71-member Congress Party branch, Ram would not have been able to form a government. Rarely before had India's parliamentary system been in such disarray...