Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remote and uncommunicative. At Reagan rallies, he would stay off to one side chain-smoking, not bothering to mix with the rank-and-file volunteers anxious to meet the brains of the campaign. Said a Reagan loyalist: "You never felt you could just walk in on Sears with a problem. He rarely smiled and when he did, it was always manipulating. We were all amazed at the Christmas party when Sears came in and started talking socially with us. We always felt he was the cruiser and we were the tugboat...
...more thoughtful students of George Bush have always been concerned about a degree of sensitivity or reticence or perhaps propriety that seemed to suggest timidity. At crucial tunes in Bush's career that quality appeared and raised doubts about his fiber. This problem has grown disproportionately large in the house of magnifying mirrors that we now call the presidential selection process...
...even if voters do switch their attention from the crises overseas to inflation at home, Kennedy will still be up against his most enduring political problem: voters' doubts about his character. Because of them, he switched his broadcast spots in the last days of the New Hampshire campaign from criticism of Carter to character defenses by his mother Rose and sister-in-law Ethel. Rose Kennedy said her son was devoted to his family and had been "a tower of strength on the tragic occasions of the deaths of my three older sons." Ethel Kennedy described...
...Senator Ted Kennedy politicked through New England, he was often afflicted by a problem that was never mentioned in any campaign speeches and rarely elsewhere: severe pain in his lower back. Kennedy crushed three vertebrae in the crash of a small plane in 1964. Since his recovery, he has suffered periodically from back trouble-much as his brother John did in his rocking chair in the White House. On one extended foray, the Senator flinched visibly every time he clambered out of the eight-seat Piper Chieftain that took him from New York City to his stops in three...
...After our war [against the pro-Western Lon Nol government], we had to face many complicated problems. But we had one major achievement: we solved the food problem for our people. Of course, there were some shortcomings. Even our cadres [Communist officials] had their shortcomings...