Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Especially so, perhaps, because Carter's acceptance speech Thursday night succeeded, to the extent it did, primarily as a get-them-scared-of-Ronnie exercise. It failed, painfully, to achieve what the President's own staff had said would be its equally essential aim: communicating to all of America a vision of his goals that would lead and inspire the nation. While painting, in broad, strokes rich with hyperbole, a gloomy picture of a Reaganite America, Carter described the Democratic promised land only in vague?or at times excessively technical ?platitudes. Not even the delegates who had nominated...
...offset the potential losses in the South, Carter's aides say they will make some effort to take California from Reagan, at least to the extent of making Reagan protect his base, thus tying up money and manpower he could use elsewhere. The Carterites believe they have a chance to take Washington and Oregon, especially if Anderson's strength declines as they predict. This could give them two states they did not win in 1976. But the Rocky Mountain and Western plains states seem to be firmly in Reagan's camp...
Freedom of the press and political pluralism appear to have been respected to some extent; there are six opposition parties, for example, and a moderate representative of the private sector sits on the ruling five-man junta...
...voices is spacious enough to accommodate Johnson's personal weaknesses. But the superficial treatment of the Bobby Baker scandal, the relationship between the Johnsons' business interests and the FCC and the Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory serves legend more than history...
...vote. The General Assembly's action, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, amounted to nothing less than mischief making, while the Jerusalem bill was "a diversionary tactic." Privately, Administration officials were even more concerned about the drift of events because the provocations and counterprovocations, which to some extent seemed to be outside the control of the participants, raised serious questions about the durability of the U.S. Middle East peace policy in the national-election hiatus. U.S. policymakers have to wonder whether the U.S. can afford to stand by ineffectually as Middle East tensions rise...