Word: aarons
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...Every President must have his National Security Council or the equivalent," says David Aaron, an NSC deputy under Jimmy Carter. "A President always has the need for independent advice." But that same independence can be abused by officials who invoke the President's name too freely in winning concessions from other agencies, as North supposedly did. "I used to have a rule," says McGeorge Bundy, who served as John Kennedy's National Security Adviser. "You never say, 'the President wants' unless you are very clear about what he really wants." The wisdom of that rule has begun to sink...
...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...
...Hillel Chairman Aaron S. Saiger said that Harvard Hillel's failure to invite Kahane is not the result of the B'nai Brith policy and that there is no policy which excludes Kahane from speaking at Harvard Hillel. "I do not consider B'nai Brith's resolution binding on us [Hillel] as a student organization," said Saiger. Saiger said that, "Kahane has the right to speak, but Hillel has the right not to invite...
Meese focused his attack on Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...
Meese only cited one Supreme Court case in his speech, Cooper v. Aaron. That 1958 ruling declared the Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education--barring school segregation--to be "the supreme law of the land." In other words, school segregation in any part of the country was outlawed. Meese, a graduate of Yale Law School, disagrees with that interpretation of the court's power...