Which candidate:
(on the record comments and platform planks are in parentheses)
1. Claimed long experience made the candidate the best choice
2. Had proposed a universal health care program
("I will offer a far-reaching set of proposals for improving America's
health care and making it available more fairly to more people.
I will propose:
--A program to insure that no American family will be prevented from
obtaining basic
medical care by inability to pay.
--I will propose a major increase in and redirection of aid to medical
schools, to greatly
increase the number of doctors and other health personnel.
--Incentives to improve the delivery of health services, to get more
medical care resources
into those areas that have not been adequately served, to make
greater
use of medical assistants,
and to slow the alarming rise in the costs of medical care.
--New programs to encourage better preventive medicine, by attacking the
causes of disease and injury,
and by providing incentives to doctors to keep people well rather
than
just to treat them when they are sick. ")
3. Promised to bring our boys home with an honorable end to the seemingly
endless fighting
("We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting
unity."
"We shall plan now for the day when our wealth can be transferred from
the
destruction of war abroad
to the urgent needs of our people at home."
"We must urgently dedicate our efforts toward restoration of peace both
at
home and abroad."
"The entire nation has been profoundly concerned by hastily extem****ized,
undeclared land wars which
embroil ... U.S. armed forces thousands of miles from our shores. It is
time to realize that not every
international conflict is susceptible of solution by American ground
forces.
Militarily, the Administration's piecemeal commitment of men and material
has wasted our massive
military superiority and frittered away our options. The result has been
a
prolonged war of attrition."
"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used
so
ineffectively...And I
pledge to you ... that the first priority foreign policy objective of our
... Administration will be to
bring an honorable end to the war")
4. Was disliked by very conservative republicans
5. Was involved in the firing of White House workers
6. Proposed changes to make higher education more available to those
needing financial assistance
("We will reform our system of Federal aid to education, to provide it
when
it is needed, where it is needed,
so that it will do the most for those who need it the most.")
7. Proposed programs to make the USA energy independent
("we will lay the foundation for our future capacity to meet America's
energy needs from America's own resources")
8. Proposed programs for a cleaner environment
("Shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with
nature and begin to
make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land,
and
to our water? "
"Clean air, clean water, open spaces-these should once again be the
birthright of every American
"The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control
requires
further advances in engine
design and fuel composition. We shall intensify our research, set
increasingly strict standards, and
strengthen enforcement procedures-and we shall do it now.")
9. Called for better care and sup****t for Veterans
("We will continue and improve our Nation's efforts to assist those who
have served in the
Armed Services ... through better job and training op****tunities"
"pledges vigorous efforts to assure jobs for returning Vietnam war
veterans, as well as other assistance
to enable them and their families to establish living conditions
befitting
their brave service. We pledge a
rehabilitation allowance for paraplegics to afford them the means to live
outside a hospital environment.
Adequate medical and hospital care will be maintained for all veterans
with
service-connected disabilities
and veterans in need, and timely revisions of compensation programs will
be
enacted for service-connected
death and disability to help assure an adequate standard of living for
all
disabled veterans and their survivors.")
10. Called for the nation to sup****t families and children
("We must do a better job in community development--in creating more
livable communities, in
which all of our children can grow up with fuller access to op****tunity
and greater immunity to the
social evils and blights which now plague so many of our towns and
cities."
"We believe. . . that the first five years of life are crucial to a
child's development, and further, that every
child should have the op****tunity to reach his full potential as an
individual...
[take] a comprehensive approach to the development of young children,
combining programs dealing
with their physical, social and educational needs and development.")
11. Called for education reform
Promised to reform the Executive branch (the "permanent government")
("The time has come to *****s and reform all of our institutions of
government"
"One goal on which all Americans agree is that our children should have
the very best
education this great Nation can provide."
"Include an educational bill of rights for Spanish-speaking people,
American Indians, and others
who face special language problems in schools;")
12. Sup****ted changes to farm programs to sup****t family farms and reduce
aid to agribusiness
("we will carry our concern with the quality of life in America to the
farm
as well as the suburb,
to the village as well as to the city. What rural America needs most is a
new kind of assistance."
"revitalize rural America, by giving to America's farmers their fair
share
of America's increasing productivity.")
13. Advocated Trade Reform
("And together with the other nations of the world, we will establish the
economic framework within which
Americans will share more fully in an expanding worldwide trade and
prosperity in the years ahead, with
more open access to both markets and supplies.")
14. Proposed election reform
("our presidential selection mechanism once again requires overhaul"
"Campaign abuses recently publicized and of years gone by, samplings of
Congressional and public
opinion, expert observation, the experiences of all of us in elective
office--all proclaim that the electoral
process needs reform and that the accountability of candidates must be
more
uniformly enforced. "
"In recent years, political campaigns in America have become increasingly
expensive. Because the need for
more and more money has become acute in many Federal elections, I regard
campaign financing as the most
im****tant area for reform, and the area in which reform is most urgently
required.")
15. Proposed economic changes to strengthen the middle class
("The goal of our Party is prosperity, widely shared, sustainable in
peace"
"We will continue to pursue sound economic policies that will eliminate
inflation, further cut unemployment,
raise real incomes, and strengthen our international economic position.")
16. Called for strengthening relation****ps with other nations and an era
of
peace.
("I see an America at peace with all the nations of the world."
"We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no
one our enemy."
"The time has passed when America will make every other nation's conflict
our own, or make every
other nation's future our responsibility, or presume to tell the people
of
other nations how to manage
their own affairs. ")
17. Called for welfare reform
(We cannot delay longer in accompli****ng a total reform of our welfare
system."
"Let us provide the means by which more can help themselves. This shall
be
our goal.
Let us generously help those who are not able to help themselves.")
18. Sup****ted Equal Rights for Women
("continue ... efforts to open equal op****tunities for women, recognizing
clearly that women are
often denied such op****tunities today. While every woman may not want a
career outside the home,
every woman should have the freedom to choose whatever career she
wishes-and an equal
chance to pursue it."
"we will work toward: ...
Appointment of women to highest level positions in the Federal
Government,
including the
Cabinet and Supreme Court;
Equal pay for equal work;
Elimination of discrimination against women at all levels in Federal
Government;
Elimination of discrimination against women in the criminal justice
system, in sentencing,
rehabilitation and prison facilities;
Increased op****tunities for the part time employment of women, and
expanded training programs
for women who want to reenter the labor force;
Elimination of economic discrimination against women in credit,
mortgage,
insurance, property,
rental and finance contracts")
19. Demanded fiscal reform
(Now millions of Americans are forced to go into debt today because the
Federal Government decided
to go into debt yesterday. We must balance our Federal budget so that
American families will
have a better chance to balance their family budgets.)
(In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 percent. The
profound question is:
Does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent
better off, 50 percent happier?
Or does it mean that ... 1980 the President standing in this place will
look back on a decade in which
70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic,
suffocated by smog, poisoned
by water, deafened by noise, and terrorized by crime?)
("improve life for the aging; to combat crime and drug abuse; to improve
health services and to ensure that no one will be denied needed health
care
because of inability to pay; to protect workers' pension rights; to
promote
equal op****tunity for members of minorities, and others who have been left
behind; to expand consumer protection; to improve the environment; to
revitalize rural America; to help the cities; to launch new initiatives in
education; to improve trans****tation...")
("We believe in full and equal op****tunity for all Americans and in the
protection of individual rights and liberties.
We believe in the family as the keystone of the community, and in the
community as the keystone of the Nation.
We believe in compassion toward those in need.
We believe in a system of law, justice, and order as the basis of a
genuinely free society.
We believe that a person should get what he works for--and that those who
can, should work for what they get.")
("And the time has come, therefore, for a major initiative to define the
nature and extent of the basic rights of privacy and to erect new
safeguards
to ensure that those rights are respected. ")
("We will be working with the other nations of the world toward agreement
on
means by which oil supplies can be assured at reasonable prices on a
stable
basis in a fair way to the consuming and producing nations alike.")
It's probably not who you think it is.
Mike
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