Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about asserting new leadership. He said that he would be altering his own "life-style." He said that he had appointed Jordan chief of staff and that there would be Cabinet changes. In the tense atmosphere that followed, Jordan announced that he too was changing his "life-style." Uncertain whether he was joking, no one laughed. Carter went around the table, ladling out criticism and praise. He told Young that several people at the Camp David summit had severely faulted him for his embarrassing statements at the U.N. "On the other hand," said Carter, "Andy is responsible for improved relations...
...President's offer to become Treasury Secretary after two other candidates had turned down the job. (Another theory is that he has political ambitions.) It may also explain why he helped the Administration get the natural gas compromise bill through Congress last year−raising questions as to whether the chairman of the Fed should be getting into any subject as controversial as gas decontrol. But earlier this year, when the Administration tried to pressure him into raising interest rates, Miller flatly refused. Such high rates, he insisted, would be "unbecoming, unwise and unnecessary," and would run the risk...
...last week's strange performance at the top in the nation that is supposed to be the economic and political leader of the non-Communist world. Accustomed to their parliamentary system, in which a Cabinet resignation signals the overthrow of a government, large numbers of Europeans even wondered whether the Carter Administration had fallen. As the week progressed, they became increasingly critical of the President. "He always acts too late and thus appears to be the victim rather than the master of events," summed up Les Edgar, a managing director of London's Sharps, Pixley & Co., bullion brokers...
...question arose whether Carter had yielded authority to Hamilton Jordan, Charles Kirbo and Jody Powell. Or had he harbored for months dark impulses to clean out his Cabinet, even while posing in an aura of human kindness? While the purge was going on, the President went out into the Rose Garden to meet with the Future Farmers of America. "Some things don't change," he said softly. "The fundamentals don't change - love within a family, honesty, friendship among people, the desire for peace, respect for one another, the beauty of nature and genuine patriotism based on confidence...
...these sites, U.S. computers and other electronic devices in tandem with spy satellites had been able to monitor most Soviet missile test-firings and hence learn, among other things, the weapons' length, diameter and launchweight. This is precisely the kind of information that will be essential for determining whether Moscow abides by a crucial SALT II restriction: increasing or decreasing key characteristics of an existing intercontinental ballistic missile by more than 5% would classify that ICBM as a "new missile." SALT II allows each side only one "new" ICBM...