Word: abrahamisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...helped lead the filibuster, arguing that the bill "is repugnant to the free-enterprise system." As chairman of the Government Operations Committee, which is responsible for such legislation, Ervin delayed the bill's entry onto the Senate floor. No problem is anticipated with his probable replacement: Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, one of the bill's chief sponsors...
...just such forlorn human beings whom Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of presidential pardoners, could not resist. Lincoln believed in a stern divine justice, yet time and again during the Civil War he exasperated his generals by pardoning boys who faced execution for such capital crimes as sleeping on sentry duty or even desertion. But Lincoln's pardons were often just commutations of death sentences, not passports to complete freedom; offenders could still find themselves at hard labor on the dread Dry Tortugas. Ford's pardon of Nixon may stem from similar motives of compassion, but it is hardly the same...
...Dobrynin meeting led in turn to one of Jerry Ford's most remarkable accomplishments of the week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
...Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork shirt), Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns (yellow, blue and white sport jacket), Senators Abraham Ribicoff, J. William Fulbright and Herman Talmadge. In a pink pantsuit, former Presidential Secretary Rose Mary Woods forgot other matters and led a bipartisan hoedown...
...balance, however, other scholars hold that the effect of the Supreme Court's action is likely to place limits on the power of the presidency. The significance of the court's opinion, says Columbia University Law Professor Abraham Sofaer, lies in its assertion that "Executive privilege does not mean Executive whim. The President does not have absolute discretion and is subject to the rules of law." Though the court gave theoretical sanction to Executive privilege, it also created a precedent for overriding the President's authority to invoke it. That precedent may yet turn...