Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...League sets three conditions for supporting a statehood drive: an educational program to explain the process, guaranteed financial viability for the state, and the omission of residential areas from the federal enclave. Fauntroy would support statehood only after D.C. has obtained congressional representatives who could lobby for the measure...
...matter, and sadly shook his head when Julian encouraged him to describe his visits to the Hawthorne home. In the course of their conversation, however, the author made one puzzling remark: "He was convinced Hawthorne had all his life concealed some great secret, which would, were it known, explain all the mysteries of his career." Melville, probably still harboring some resentment against the reserved Nathaniel, had his own reasons for making this assertion; yet his statement holds a certain grain of truth...
Unlike Studs Terkel, who presents interviews with a single individual to explain an issue, Miller uses fragments of interviews from several people to explain a particular event. With a few exceptions, Miller avails himself only of interviews that are sympathetic to Johnson, that provide excuses for Johnson's gaffes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Miller's presentation of the discrepancies in Johnson's claims of sympathy for Blacks and his early congressional voting record...
Hamilton Jordan, the President's closest aide, believes the inability to project a vision of where he wants to lead the country and to explain clearly what he has accomplished has plagued the Administration most. "Our greatest single failure is that we have not communicated effectively a description of the country's problems or a pertinent solution to those problems," he says. It is more than that. At times Carter's touch has been so uncertain that he has caused many Americans to lose confidence in him, to wonder if he really had a vision...
Some of the state breakdowns on the current leanings by sex are much sharper -and explain Reagan's need to improve his appeal to women. New York Times-CBS News polls rate Reagan well ahead of Carter among men in Illinois (41% to 30%), but trailing among women (27% to 36%); 26% of the women are undecided. The difference is similar in Texas (Reagan leads 45% to 38% among men, but trails 33% to 42% among women, and 20% of the women are undecided) and Pennsylvania (Reagan leads 39% to 31% among men, trails 30% to 32% among women...