Word: aarons
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...precedent is a guide, the President has ample reason not to show up in person. As Judge Ringer noted: "U.S. v. Burr is commanding." At the time of the 1807 treason trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr, President Thom as Jefferson informed the Government attorney that he would not appear in court to testify, arguing that the separation-of-powers principle did not permit him to get involved in a series of court proceedings. But when Chief Justice John Marshall issued a subpoena or dering Jefferson to produce a batch of letters and documents, he submitted some of them...
...week of June 18-24 Graham staged his nightly spectacular in Atlanta Stadium, home of the Atlanta Braves and their great showman, Henry Aaron. At the time, Aaron was seemingly on his way to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record. Graham had a tough act to follow, but he was prepared. In seven nights, he drew over 350,000 worshippers...
Married. Henry Louis Aaron, 39, baseball's superstar outfielder whose next home run will tie Babe Ruth's lifetime record of 714; and Billye Williams, 36, widow of the Atlanta civil rights leader the Rev. Samuel Williams and co-host of a morning TV talk show where she and Hammerin' Hank met two years ago; both for the second time; in Kingston, Jamaica...
BENEDICT ARNOLD'S classical treason and Aaron Burr's sinister plotting are as integral a part of American tradition as Nathan Hale's martyrdom or Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy. Arnold and Burr are the flip side of the historical coin, and to try to turn either into a hero seems a thankless task...
...isolate Watergate as a separate problem," says Aaron M. Kohn, director of the metropolitan crime commission in New Orleans. "It's the peak of a pyramid that covers all 50 states. All of the ingredients of Watergate are merely a reflection of things we have tolerated too long throughout the political system." Says Fred Hand Sr., a Georgia farmer and banker who was speaker of the Georgia house for eight years: "Anyone who has run a political campaign on a state level knows that if everything he did were uncovered he could be put on a chain gang...