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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1979
Page
4
The Carter administration ousted five Cabinet heads signaling a shift from Why Not the Best to loyalty and politics. Critics worry about competence while Treasury chief Blumenthal exits gracefully. Senate confirmation will test new appointees as the nation watches the evolving leadership image.
Citizens may attend a public meeting at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown tomorrow at 7 p.m. with Gov John Dalton and six cabinet members plus Lt Gov Charles Robb and Attorney General Marshall Coleman. The event offers a chance to ask about state contracts, parole, energy policy, and local issues.
A reader laments rising prescription costs after Social Security boosts and notes tight finances. Another letter critiques front page energy posts, arguing new rules hit motorists and call for relief amid shortages.
Washington report catalogs eight tactics used by President Carter to frame his leadership. It portrays listening showmanship, mass resignations as blame shifting, crisis rhetoric, staged sacrifices, bold environment talk, selective statistics, bully pulpit blame, and a transformed persona, arguing the tactics undermine trust.
Russell Baker parodies the Carter presidency using old political maxims. He notes humility dynamism war talk resignations and attacks on Washington and Big Oil as familiar tactics. The piece preserves a period voice while critiquing media and political performance.
Illinois congressman Phil Crane labels Carter’s energy fight and cabinet shake up schizophrenic and inconsistent. He filters his remarks through a 1979 presidential bid lens, aiming to attract conservative backing and challenge Carter in early primaries. Crane cites Carter’s 1976 win as built on conservative misleads and warns of shifting White House policy.
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