"Putting Americans back to work" has been selected by House Speaker Thomas O'Neill as the first priority of the new Congress. Democratic Congressmen started to work on jobs legislation even without waiting for Jimmy Carter to send his official … [Read more...] about Jobs and Natural Gas

The stalemate of the talks on Rhodesia has dismayed those pushing hard for a prompt and painless changeover from white-minority to black-majority rule. Those advocating overt or covert U.S. financing for an invasion of the prosperous, peaceful … [Read more...] about African “Liberation”

The recent furor about cheating at West Point raises some fundamental questions about enforcing a code of behavior on college students. While there is room for argument about whether the particular West Point honor code is too strict or was … [Read more...] about Campus Morality

If you want to get a bill through Congress, the way to do it is to attach the word "reform." This label appears to have magic properties to guide a bill successfully through the labyrinths of the legislative process. That bit of semantics is the … [Read more...] about Tax Act of 1976

Harold Brown, former Secretary of the Air Force and now president of California Institute of Technology, has emerged as one of the few controversial appointees in Jimmy Carter's Cabinet. The military hardliners are critical of him because of his … [Read more...] about Harold Brown Appointment

Jimmy Carter's election as President becomes official on January 6 when Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, before a joint session of Congress, opens the certificates proving that Carter has won a majority of votes in the Electoral College. Some … [Read more...] about Electoral College Changes

The big economic question is not how much the oil price increase announced by OPEC will cost us in 1977. Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson has already estimated the price tag at $2 billion plus an additional one percent of excess … [Read more...] about Oil Price Increase