Word: ascertainment
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Wholly unsatisfied, Republican Senator Howard Baker bore in with emotion. "Would you tell me, Mr. Mitchell, what is your perception of the institution of the presidency?" Replied Mitchell with a smile: "Is that part of the purpose of this committee, to ascertain from me the perception of the presidency?" Insisting that this was highly relevant, Baker asked: "Is the presidency so shrouded in mystique, is there such an aura of magnificence about the presidency, is there such an awe some responsibility . . . that the presidency in some in stances must be spared the detail, must be spared the difficulty of situations...
They also conferred with Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and coordinator of the University's affirmative action program. Leonard assured them that he was maintaining constant touch with women in the University community to ascertain their ideas regarding affirmative action...
James O. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, has been attempting to ascertain Kissinger's future plans ever since the Nixon landslide, Kissinger resigned his position as professor of Government in 1971, but the post has remained open according to the terms of an agreement reached at that time between Kissinger and the Department...
...Department promised to refrain from filling the post until the end of Nixon's first term. James Q. Wilson chairman of the Department, met last week with Kissinger in what he described as an attempt to ascertain the national security adviser's future plans...
...internist, believes the physician definitely should not dismiss the complaint as imaginary. Instead, he should try "reassurance therapy," and in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sapira tells how to administer it. The first step, he says, is to elicit a detailed description of the symptoms; the next is to ascertain how they affect or concern the patient...