Word: compassioner
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The U.S. has perhaps 40 million Protestant Evangelicals, both black and white, and they are the fastest growing element in American Christianity (see RELIGION). They also constitute a natural constituency for Carter, responding enthusiastically to his frequent use of words and phrases that identify him as one of them: love...
Finest Hour. With her occasional bias of the 1960s, Kearns tends to belittle L.B. J.'s politics of consensus. But she understands that consensus was needed after John Kennedy's assassination and that Johnson provided it in what was his finest hour. Reaching the presidency on that grim...
Dark Emphasis. If the book is substantially accurate, with perhaps only some overemphasis on the darker side, the question remains: Should the more personal descriptions of Nixon's behavior have been published? Kissinger authorized a statement deploring the authors' "indecent lack of compassion." Betty Ford argued that parts...
Do the authors of The Final Days lack compassion? It is difficult to read the book without feeling some sympathy for the disgraced Nixon, no matter how thoroughly his wounds were self-inflicted. When he pleads, "Henry, please don't ever tell anyone that I cried and that I...
Carter established a bond with blacks by means of the familiar Southern homilies sprinkled through his speeches, his unashamed evocations of love and compassion, his Baptist fundamentalist evangelism. Says Chicago Black Leader Jesse Jackson: "The fundamental problem in this country today is not economic, it's spiritual. Carter is...