Word: wieghart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other cards, Carter got less charity. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, no fans of the President, rushed to judgment: "Jimmy Carter, the miracle worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...
Some journalists share that opinion. "I don't think this is like Watergate at all, and yet the coverage is of Watergate proportions," says James Wieghart, Washington bureau chief and columnist for the New York Daily News. Columnist George Will theorized that Washington reporters are feeling guilty about having destroyed mostly Republicans lately, and that Lance presents "the first opportunity for the press to demonstrate that it also cares when Democrats fail to measure up." A few editors have observed that in the absence of any other compelling news out of somnolent Washington, Lance was receiving more than...
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