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Health care continues to be a top priority for Manitobans. The shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and cuts from previous governments still hang over the sector, and many Manitobans have long been waiting for improvements. CityNews reporter Joanne Roberts sat down with Manitoba Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-term Care Uzoma Asagwara to find out how the NDP government is working to turn the system around. Joanne Roberts (JR) : You made it very clear that a main priority for your government was health care, and the care of all Manitobans, not just here in the city, but also rural Manitobans as well. Reflecting on the past year, how do you feel your government has held up to this promise? Minister Uzoma Asagwara (UA) : I feel our government has done a really good job of listening to Manitobans from every corner of the province in terms of what they want to see their health care look like. We know in order to make the changes that Manitobans want to see, we have to understand what they want to see. So, the premier and I have had the opportunity to undertake a listening tour. We’ve been all across the province. We’ve been in Winnipeg, rural Manitoba, we’ve been in the north listening to frontline health-care workers and Manitobans, sharing with us their hopes, their ideas, concerns and experiences of the health-care system. And through that listening tour and through the work we’ve been doing with our partners, I think we’ve been able to take some really important steps in making health care better and fixing the previous damage that was done to the health-care system that was done over seven-and-a-half years. JR : Can you talk about what you’ve learned this last year being on the front lines, being all over the province, and hearing from both patients and staff? UA : What I’ve learned and what’s been reinforced is health care is Manitobans’ No. 1 priority. It doesn’t matter where you go in our province, people are talking about their experiences in emergency rooms, or trying to see a specialist or a doctor. And they’ve been sharing a lot about what health care means to them. Being able to access essential health care no matter where they live. So, what we know as a government and what we’ve heard resoundingly is that we need more people on the front lines of our health-care system. We need more nurses, doctors, allied health-care professionals and staff and it’s been wonderful to hear directly from those folks about how we do the real work of actually retaining those folks on the front lines and also recruiting and training more health-care professionals. Through that listening, through that learning, and through taking real action, we’ve been able to take some big steps; like hiring a net, new 873 health-care workers on the front lines of our health-care system across Manitoba. JR : Is there a particular moment over the last year, is there somebody that you’ve met, given your experience in this industry, is there something you’ve learned, that you were surprised to learn and it’s now guiding you through the next year. UA : I would say we’ve had the incredible opportunity to meet folks from all aspects of health care. We’ve heard from folks who always haven’t had the opportunity to have their voices and expertise heard directly by the government. What I’ve really taken away is that every single perspective matters. Every single person who helps keep our health-care system, from the environmental staff workers, housekeeping, frontline folks, there’s administrators who understand the inner workings of the front line. We need to listen to those folks and invite them into the conversation as to how we fix health care – together. I would say one of the biggest pieces in doing this work and learning from folks who have been generous in sharing their knowledge with us, has been the way that people want to do the work together. There were a lot of years before our government, where people weren’t engaged. They weren’t listened to. They weren’t heard. Their expertise wasn’t valued and people are really eager to share what they know with us, and be a part of the solution. So, we know that doing things together is the way we accomplish hard things. Here in Manitoba, we’ve got the best communities who do that work, and the best health-care workers who do that work. We’re committed to working together, working in collaboration and partnership and continuing the work of moving our health-care system in a better direction. JR : You’ve also been honest in the last year, that all of these strides that you are making, there’s still a long way to go. We’ve also heard from nurses who are saying morale is at an all-time low. We’ve heard from patients who are still feeling like they are left behind, or they are falling through the cracks, because of the existing health-care system and how long it takes to make these changes. What would you say to people who feel they are still not seeing an impact, despite all you’ve accomplished over the last year? UA : Like every other Manitoban, I want and I wish to see these changes, big changes, tomorrow. But we know these things take time. We didn’t get to where we are in health care overnight. It took seven-and-a-half years of cuts, of closures, of chaos for us to see the level of damage done to our health-care system that has created a lot of the tough challenges we’re facing right now, but there’s hope. There’s hope when we can talk about a net, new 873 health-care workers that have joined the front lines. There’s hope when we see that we have more access to primary care with the extended hours primary care clinics we’ve opened. And there’s hope when we see we’ve hired a net new – a record number – 116 doctors to our health-care system. I know that it’s frustrating. Folks are carrying frustration that they’ve experienced for years into their experiences today. But we are seeing things get better and we are going to continue to take steps — even if they are just little steps — we’re going to keep taking those steps in the right direction. I want to reassure Manitobans that their No. 1 priority is going to continue to be our No. 1 priority. JR : Can you talk about the new year? A fresh start for many people. What is your government planning to do over the next year? What can you share with us today? UA : In year one, our government was able to do some really big things. Universal free birth control for all Manitobans was a really big step. We were able to do a lot around health-care recruitment and retention. We were able to do a lot in terms of bringing MRI, mobile MRI technology, to the north. The first time ever the north has ever had this diagnostic capacity. But looking into the future, looking into the new year, we just want to keep that momentum going. We have a target of hiring a net new 1,000 health-care workers. We are well on our way to achieving that very, very ambitious target. READ MORE: Manitoba announces mobile primary health-care clinic pilot So for 2025, we’re going to continue to set really ambitious goals. Manitobans deserve to have an ambitious government. They deserve to have a team that’s committed to making health care better and really doing the work, the heavy lifting and the hard work, of changing the culture in health care. That’s a really big part of how we improve the morale of nurses and front-line folks. It’s a big part of how we make the health-care system a place where we can attract people and keep people working happily and with a good balance. 2025, for me, is going to be a continuation of 2024. Where we continue to build on the good things we’ve done. We continue to do the work of changing the culture in health care, continue to build and repair relationships with front-line health-care workers and making sure, at the bedside, Manitobans feel the improvements right there. JR : Speaking about changing the culture in health care, your recent announcement of the request for proposals to move from agency nurses, back to nurses funded by the province. Nurses that are working for us, for the good of Manitobans. Many people called that a big and bold move and I know when you had announced that, you signalled to Manitobans that their health care comes first and profit does not come first. With that announcement as well, what did you want to signal to all of the health-care workers? UA : We know that health-care workers care deeply making sure that all Manitobans receive the best quality of care. I can’t thank nurses enough for what they do for Manitobans everyday in our health-care system. I’m a nurse myself. I was a nurse for a number of years before going into politics, so I know firsthand what it means to provide care at the bedside and it’s a calling. It’s something that is a really sacred responsibility and role. What we want is for more folks to be working in the public system, as part of a team — a structure — that we know results in the best outcomes for Manitobans who need care. RELATED: Manitoba vowing to crack down on overuse, lack of scrutiny by private health agencies The RFP is making sure that we put clear controls in place. That we can manage the costs around agencies, which are completely out of control and there were no controls in place for many years. We know that when you have these controls in place, that you can also improve the quality of care, and you can hold agencies accountable to making sure that they’re taking an approach that supports a strong public health-care system. It is a bold step, but again, Manitobans deserve a bold government. They deserve a government that’s going to take important steps to make health care better and this is just one part of that. It’s a way for us to also make sure we’re moving in the right direction of strengthening health care in the system for nurses and the health-care workers alike. JR : We all know that everyone struggles, Manitobans are not exempt from that, and I imagine being a provincial leader and also just the person that you are, that you are not exempt from criticism from every corner that you are in. I’m wondering if you could reflect on a difficult day you’ve had as our deputy premier this year, and how you made it through this day? UA : That’s a really big question. I’m a human. I’m a Manitoban just like everyone else. I love this province, I love our province. I’m so proud to be a Manitoban and I’m so fortunate to have been given the opportunity to serve Manitobans and our province in this way. It’s something I don’t take for granted; it’s the highest honour of my life. So, for all of the tough days and tough moments, I reflect on what this opportunity really means and it means that I get to be a part of making Manitoba better for all families. We’ve got great leadership in our Premier Wab Kinew; he’s somebody who is really guiding our province in a much brighter direction than where it was being led previously and it’s something I take really seriously. So for the tough days that do come up, and they absolutely do come up, for the challenges that maybe I have in my own personal life, we all have families, we have relationships we navigate and I want the same things for my family that Manitobans want for their families. I want my family to be healthy and safe. And doing the work of making health care better not only supports my family, but it supports all Manitoban families, and so I do this work with the province that I love at the heart of it, with my own family, my own community at the heart of it, and I’m just grateful to be able to continue to serve in this role and be there for Manitobans.Retail sales rose at healthy pace last month in latest sign of US economy's health WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers stepped up their spending at retail stores last month, providing a boost to the economy in the early phases of the winter holiday shopping season. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that retail sales rose 0.7% in November. That's a solid increase and higher than October’s 0.5% gain. The boost in spending underscores that the economy is still growing at a healthy pace even with higher interest rates. It's a trend that could cause the Federal Reserve to lower borrowing costs more slowly next year than they have previously signaled. Tuesday’s report arrives just a day before the Fed is set to announce its latest rate decision Wednesday. Americans end 2024 with grim economic outlook, but Republicans are optimistic for 2025: AP-NORC poll WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that Democrats are feeling more pessimistic about the U.S. economy after Donald Trump's victory. Republicans, meanwhile, are still dour about the current state of the economy but hopeful that growth will be stronger next year when Trump returns to the White House as president. The latest survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that some Americans are evaluating the economy more by who holds political power than on what the underlying trends suggest. This was a persistent challenge for President Joe Biden and raises the possibility that Trump might also struggle to translate his economic ideas into political wins. Energy chief Granholm warns against 'unfettered exports' of liquefied natural gas WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the incoming Trump administration should proceed cautiously as it considers proposals for new natural gas export terminals. Granholm warns that “unfettered exports” of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, could raise wholesale domestic prices by more than 30% and increase planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Granholm’s statement Tuesday came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study on the environmental and economic impacts of natural gas exports, which have grown exponentially in the past decade. The analysis found that U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic prices and could lead to higher global carbon emissions. Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week. It's the first time he's publicly backed the idea. He made the comments to Faiz Shakir, a political adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders. Shakir interviewed the Democratic president for A More Perfect Union, a pro-labor advocacy and journalism organization. The Associated Press reviewed a video of the interview before its release. A bipartisan proposal to ban trading by members of Congress and their families has dozens of sponsors, but it has not received a vote. What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump? NEW YORK (AP) — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January. The tech list includes Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Meanwhile, the list of what the executives may be hoping for includes an open path toward developing artificial intelligence, easier access to energy for data centers and an easing of antitrust enforcement. Suspect charged with killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO as an act of terrorism NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is charged with murder as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to New York from a Pennsylvania jail. The 26-year-old already had been charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson. But the terror allegation is new. New York law allows prosecutors to bring such a charge when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.” Mangione's New York lawyer declined to comment. Amazon investing another $10 billion in Ohio-based data centers COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Amazon Web Services will invest another $10 billion to bolster its data center infrastructure in Ohio. The company and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced the plan Monday. The new investment will boost the amount it has committed to spending in Ohio by the end of 2029 to more than $23 billion. AWS launched its first data centers in the state in 2016. It currently operates campuses in two counties in central Ohio. The new investment will allow AWS to expand its data centers to new sites across the state, but the company says those locations have not been determined yet. Federal Reserve is likely to slow its rate cuts with inflation pressures still elevated WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans hoping for lower borrowing costs for homes, credit cards and cars may be disappointed after this week’s Federal Reserve meeting. The Fed’s policymakers are likely to signal fewer interest rate cuts next year than were previously expected. The officials are set to reduce their benchmark rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, by a quarter-point to about 4.3% when their meeting ends Wednesday. The problem is that while inflation has dropped far below its peak of 9.1% in mid-2022, it remains stubbornly above the Fed’s 2% target. Stock market today: Wall Street trims its stellar gains as Nvidia's star dims again NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes trimmed some of their stellar gains for the year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% Tuesday, though it’s still near its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 267 points, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.3% from its record set the day before. Nvidia, the superstar stock that’s been a big reason for Wall Street’s run to records this year, fell for its eighth loss in the last nine days. Treasury yields held relatively steady after sales at U.S. retailers strengthened by more than expected. Bitcoin set another record. Why is tech giant SoftBank investing over $100 billion in the US? BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son has joined President-elect Donald Trump in announcing plans by technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States. Trump said the investments would create 100,000 jobs over four years, twice what Son promised when he pledged $50 billion in U.S. investments in 2016. Son is known for making bold choices, sometimes paying big and sometimes not. SoftBank has investments in dozens of Silicon Valley startups, big companies like semiconductor maker Arm and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The stock market rally and craze for AI has boosted the value of its assets, but some question if its investments will create that many jobs.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory. The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, comes less than four weeks after a report that led many fellow GOP elected officials and candidates, including presidential nominee Donald Trump, to distance themselves from Robinson's gubernatorial campaign. Robinson, who announced the lawsuit at a news conference in Raleigh with a Virginia-based attorney, has denied authoring the messages. CNN “chose to publish despite knowing or recklessly disregarding that Lt. Gov. Robinson’s data — including his name, date of birth, passwords, and the email address supposedly associated with the NudeAfrica account — were previously compromised by multiple data breaches,” the lawsuit states, referencing the website. Robinson, who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, called the report a “high-tech lynching” on a candidate "who has been targeted from Day 1 by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.” CNN declined to comment Tuesday, spokesperson Emily Kuhn said in an email. The CNN report, which first aired Sept. 19, said Robinson left statements over a decade ago on the message board in which, in part, he referred to himself as a “black NAZI,” said he enjoyed transgender pornography, said he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama, and slammed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.” The network report said it matched details of the account on the message board to other online accounts held by Robinson by comparing usernames, a known email address and his full name. CNN reported that details discussed by the account holder matched Robinson’s age, length of marriage and other biographical information. It also compared figures of speech that were used in his public Facebook profile and that appeared in discussions by the account on the pornographic website. Polls at the time of the CNN report already showed Democratic rival Josh Stein, the sitting attorney general, with a lead over Robinson. Early in-person voting begins Thursday statewide, and over 57,000 completed absentee ballots have been received so far. Robinson also in the same defamation lawsuit sued a Greensboro punk rock band singer who alleged in a music video and in an interview with a media outlet that Robinson, in the 1990s and early 2000s, frequented a porn shop the singer once worked at and purchased videos. Louis Love Money, the other named defendant, released the video and spoke with other media outlets before the CNN report. Robinson denies the allegation in the lawsuit, which reads, “Lt. Gov. Robinson was not spending hours at the video store, five nights a week. He was not renting or previewing videos, and he did not purchase ‘bootleg’ or other videos from Defendant Money.” Money said in a phone interview Tuesday that he stands by his statements and the music video's content as truthful: “My story hasn't changed.” The lawsuit, which seeks at least $50 million in damages, says the effort against Robinson “appears to be a coordinated attack aimed at derailing his campaign for governor.” It provides no evidence that the network or Money schemed with outside groups to create what Robinson alleges are false statements. Robinson’s lawyer, Jesse Binnall, said that he expects to find more “bad actors,” and that entities, which he did not identify, have stonewalled his firm's efforts to collect information. “We will use every tool at our disposal now that a lawsuit has been filed, including the subpoena power, in order to continue pursuing the facts,” said Binnall, whose clients have included Trump and his campaign. In North Carolina courts, a public official claiming defamation generally must show a defendant knew a statement was false or recklessly disregarded its untruthfulness. Most of the top staff running Robinson’s campaign and his lieutenant governor’s office quit following the CNN report, and the Republican Governors Association, which had already spent millions of dollars in advertising backing Robinson, stopped supporting his bid. And Democrats from presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris to downballot state candidates began running ads linking their opponents to Robinson. Robinson's campaign isn't running TV commercials now. He said that “we’ve chosen to go in a different direction” and focus on in-person campaign stops. Robinson already had a history of inflammatory comments about topics like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights that Stein and his allies have emphasized in opposing him on TV commercials and online. Stein spokesperson Morgan Hopkins said Tuesday in a statement that “even before the CNN report, North Carolinians have known for a long time that Mark Robinson is completely unfit to be Governor." Hurricane Helene and its aftermath took the CNN report off the front pages. Robinson worked for several days with a central North Carolina sheriff collecting relief supplies and criticized Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper — barred by term limits from seeking reelection — for state government's response in the initial stages of relief. Trump endorsed Robinson before the March gubernatorial primary, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids” for his speaking ability. Robinson had been a frequent presence at Trump’s North Carolina campaign stops, but he hasn’t participated in such an event since the CNN report. This story was first published on Oct. 15, 2024. It was updated on Nov. 22, 2024 to correct which of Robinson’s social media accounts CNN cited in a comparison to language in messages from a pornographic website message board. CNN cited his public Facebook account, not his Twitter account.
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NYT Strands hints, answers for December 30The National Economic Council (NEC) has resolved to reinforce the implementation of the National Electrification Strategy in a bid to end the constant collapse of the nation’s power grid. This came just as Vice President Kashim Shettima, also the Chairman of NEC, told members of the Council that access to energy was a fundamental right and not a privilege because electricity remained the oxygen of economic growth. Accordingly, the Council constituted a committee on National Electrification to help address the challenges in the power sector. According to a release by Shettima’s spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, the committee headed by Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, was to work towards deepening states’ engagements within the Electricity Reform Act 2023 and the National Electrification Strategy and Implementation Plan. Following a presentation by the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), NEC observed that Nigeria needed a reformed and diversified electricity system, noting that by empowering states, accessibility and affordability of electricity could be enabled, ensuring that all regions effectively met their specific energy needs. Members of the committee included Governors Dikko Radda of Katsina, Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe, Ademola Adeleke of Osun, Hope Uzodimma of Imo, and Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau. Others were Ministers of Finance, Mr Wale Edun; Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Atiku Bagudu; Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu; Special Adviser to the President on NEC and Climate Change; Special Adviser to the President on Power; Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company. Earlier in his address, Vice President Shettima maintained that access to energy was a fundamental right and not a privilege because electricity was the oxygen of economic growth. He outlined issues before the Council that required urgent attention including energy infrastructure, human capital development, creative industries, fiscal strategy, industrial innovation, and long-term development planning, describing them as foundational to the transformation Nigeria needs. Shettima explained that it was for this that experts and stakeholders from some of the critical sectors have been invited to share their insights and contributions. He stated: “The past few months of collapses in our national power grid compel us to reinforce the pace with which we are adopting and implementing the National Electrification Strategy. Energy access is a fundamental right, not a privilege. It is the oxygen of economic growth. “Our blueprints must, therefore, strive to expand access, empower rural communities, and drive productivity, especially for MSMEs. I hope that our discussions today will inspire solutions to light up homes, power businesses, and fuel Nigeria’s industrial future. “Whatever path we agree upon, it is clear that a private-sector-led distributed renewable energy generation approach is essential to increasing electricity access for households and small enterprises alike”. The Vice President also urged the Council to take Nigeria’s creative industry seriously, saying it presented an avenue to redefine the nation’s economic trajectory. According to him, “New technologies have not only amplified the global appeal of our arts, crafts, and culture but also opened up revenue streams and job opportunities for Nigerians. “Our music, films, art, and cultural heritage are not just global symbols of Nigeria’s soft power but also vital engines of economic growth. We cannot afford to relegate the promise of turning creativity into wealth, empowering our youth, and positioning Nigeria as a hub of innovation and cultural excellence,” he added. The Council also received presentations on Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) by its Nation
Mets roasted by 'SNL' cast in hilarious Juan Soto free agency skitJimmy Carter was a presidential paradox – a son of the Deep South devoted to civil rights, a small businessman wary of his party’s labor union base, a devout Baptist abhorred by the rising religious right, a submarine officer who was reluctant to commit American forces in war and a ferocious campaigner who disdained the compromises of governing. He parked politics at the Oval Office door, believing he would be reelected if he did “the right thing,” freeing him to take on challenges other presidents shirked. Congress enacted 70% of his ambitious agenda , a record surpassed only slightly by the fabled President Lyndon Johnson. Carter, who died Sunday at age 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, was our most accomplished one-term modern president, whose enduring achievements were eclipsed by inflation, Iran, inexperience and interparty warfare. The energy security America enjoys rests on the foundation of his three comprehensive energy bills , ending price controls on domestic production of oil and natural gas, focusing on conservation, and inaugurating the era of wind and solar energy. Average Americans benefited from the consumer advocates he placed in regulatory agencies, along with legislation that opened up transportation to competition, from trucking to railroads to airlines, making air travel affordable for the middle class and clearing the way for new carriers like Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways. He even removed Prohibition-era regulations that had blocked the rise of the local craft beer industry and began telecommunications deregulation that ushered in the cable era. Jimmy Carter's extraordinary life: Imperfect in office to consequential former president Jimmy Carter was a clean energy pioneer Carter was the greatest environmental president since Theodore Roosevelt, doubling the size of the national park system through the Alaska Lands Act. With typical attention to detail, he spread a map of Alaska on the Oval Office rug and on his hands and knees persuaded Alaska’s senior Republican senator to accept setting aside over 157 million acres for protection against development. In ethically challenged Washington, Carter's campaign pledges – “ I will never lie to you ” and seeking a government “ as good " as the American people – were translated into lasting reforms: the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , prohibiting companies from paying bribes to foreign officials to get business; the 1978 Inspector General Act , creating independent inspectors general to root out fraud and abuse in federal agencies; and the 1978 Ethics in Government Act , requiring senior officials to disclose their assets, restrict gifts and limit post-employment lobbying, and authorizing the appointment of special prosecutors to investigate wrongdoing – the precursor to special counsel Robert Mueller and his Russia investigation during the Trump presidency. With Walter Mondale, Carter created the modern vice presidency, making his running mate a full partner in government with a West Wing office and access to all classified papers. He appointed more women and minorities to judgeships and senior posts than all the previous 38 presidents together, and he supported affirmative action , angering his conservative Southern base. Carter's domestic Achilles' heel was also his finest hour: tackling a decade of runaway inflation impervious to traditional remedies. Inflation was high during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies and rose further under Carter, with the oil shock and gas lines from the radical Iranian revolution. First lady Rosalynn Carter: From mental health to Camp David to the campaign trail, she made her mark He told us that every measure he tried had failed, and that even if it doomed his reelection he would choose Paul Volcker to chair the Federal Reserve, knowing full well it would mean tight money and sky-high interest rates that his advisers, including me, warned would be political poison. Carter never complained. Volcker’s prescription worked – not in time to earn him a second term, but it laid the foundation for the low inflation we enjoy today, even with the temporary spike from the pandemic recovery. Stronger America at home and abroad In foreign policy, Carter's most lasting success was the greatest feat of personal presidential diplomacy in American history. Deliberately isolated at Camp David for 13 agonizing days in September 1978 with the mutually distrustful Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Carter crafted more than 20 successive draft agreements seeking common ground. With all participants exhausted, Begin was ready to go home. Carter applied a personal touch by inscribing photographs of the three leaders to Begin’s eight grandchildren . The Israeli prime minister’s eyes teared, he relented and the rest is history: For more than four decades, the peace treaty Carter negotiated between Egypt and Israel has been central to Israel’s security and to America’s national interest. A lion at dusk: Jimmy Carter's greatest accomplishments have been in health and welfare Carter made human rights a central tenet and applied those principles to the Latin American dictatorships, creating a new era in hemispheric relations along with the Panama Canal Treaty. With the Soviet Union, he combined soft and hard power: championing human rights for Soviet Jews and others, increasing defense spending, greenlighting military modernization programs (that President Ronald Reagan later built upon) and taking a tough stand on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . It was confrontation with the Iranian revolution, a conundrum no president has resolved, that brought down Carter. He supported our ally, the shah of Iran, to the bitter end, and urged the shah's army to stand up to the Islamic regime that followed. Carter was the last holdout, and after he agreed to let the shah enter the United States for cancer treatment, radical students took American diplomats hostage in our Tehran embassy. Carter mistakenly promised their families he would put their safety first, giving the Iranians leverage, and refused to blockade Iran’s oil export ports. He holed himself up in the White House to concentrate on their release, keeping the humiliating story on television for 444 nights . The crowning blow was a bold but unsuccessful rescue mission doomed by too few helicopters, unexpected sandstorms, and the failure of our four military services to coordinate the complex mission. But as commander in chief, he took sole responsibility. David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, recounted to me in an interview for my book what Carter had told him: If the mission succeeded, it would be their success; if it failed, it would be on his shoulders. Carter’s enemies dismissed him as ineffectual, and former President Donald Trump called his accomplishments "peanuts," but they were wrong. Jimmy Carter does not deserve a place on Mount Rushmore with our greatest presidents, but he belongs in the foothills with others who strengthened our country and its place in the world. His vice president, Walter Mondale, put it succinctly in words now etched on the Carter Presidential Library : “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace.” Stuart E. Eizenstat was chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 and held several senior positions in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, including U.S. ambassador to the European Union, undersecretary of Commerce, undersecretary of State and deputy secretary of the Treasury. He is the author of " President Carter: The White House Years ."
10,149 Shares in Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:YMAB) Acquired by Intech Investment Management LLCThe PGA Tour announced its schedule of seven post-season tournaments for the fall of 2025 on Tuesday with no Las Vegas event on the calendar for the first time since 1983. The lineup is one fewer than this year and tees off with the Procore Championship in Napa, California, on September 11-14, two weeks after the 2025 Tour Championship. Absent from the schedule is the Shriners Children's Open in Las Vegas. After the Ryder Cup next September at Bethpage Black, the PGA Tour events resume with the Sanderson Farms Championship on October 2-5. The PGA Tour's Japan stop, the Baycurrent Classic, will be October 9-12 at Yokohama Country Club followed by the Black Desert Championship on October 23-26 in Utah. The World Wide Technology Championship at Los Cabos, Mexico, will be November 6-9 followed the next week by the Bermuda Championship and the RSM Classic on November 20-23 at Sea Island, Georgia. "With events in four US states, Japan, Mexico and Bermuda, the conclusion to the 2025 golf calendar promises to be exciting for our fans worldwide," said Tyler Dennis, PGA Tour chief competitions officer. Under tighter qualifying rules for the 2026 PGA Tour approved by the Player Advisory Council last month, only the top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will secure exempt status with the 50 who reach next year's BMW Championship being exempt into signature events for 2026. Those ranked 51st and beyond will take FedEx Cup points into the fall to try and accumulate eligibility points for the 2026 campaign. Three PGA Tour Challenge season events will be played next December -- the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas hosted by Tiger Woods, the LPGA-PGA mixed-team Grant Thornton Invitational and the PNC Championship parent-child event. Tour commissioner Jay Monahan also announced Tuesday that the PGA is searching for a new chief executive officer whose job would be to grow the business side of the operation in light of the $1.5 billion investment in PGA Tour Enterprises by Strategic Sports Group, a set of team sports owners. js/bb
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