Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would you have more confidence that the whole truth about Watergate will come out if the new special prosecutor appointed by the President is in charge, or if Congress were to appoint its own special Watergate prosecutor...
Most members of the Senate committee, as well as those on a House Judiciary Subcommittee, which was also holding hearings on the same subject, prefer a bill that would have the courts appoint the special prosecutor. That would make the prosecutor independent of the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as of the White House. But Richardson and other witnesses before the committees disputed the measure's constitutionality, arguing that only the Executive Branch is empowered to authorize and conduct prosecutions. Dean Roger C. Cramton of the Cornell Law School warned that the measure could lead to another year...
...Congressmen seemed far more interested in adopting a compromise measure that would allow Nixon to appoint the prosecutor, with Senate confirmation, but permit the President to fire him only for gross improprieties. If the President's nominee were not confirmed within 30 days, the proposal provides that the court would appoint the special prosecutor. Some even thought that an agreement might be worked out with Nixon so that he would not veto the bill...
...Faculty then considered another non-controversial motion which asked President Bok to appoint a student-faculty Council on the Arts which will supervise extra-curricular, arts-related activities. After some insignificant debate, the Faculty voted approval, with but one, lone...
...appoint a committee of students and professors to study the environmental and economic effects of the plant...