Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure to grasp for the nomination began to grow in mid-July, he explains, when Senate colleagues, fearful that Carter's political weakness would damage their own campaigns for reelection, began urging him to run. "During the month of August," Kennedy said of the recent recess, "I had a chance to reflect, the time to review my family responsibilities, and to think about the extent to which my candidacy would be a divisive factor." He met with his closest confidants, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith and Washington Lawyer Paul Kirk, and he concluded that damaging divisions already existed. Said...
...Nicaragua and the Caribbean, Zbigniew Brzezinski's National Security Council asked U.S. intelligence agencies to re-evaluate the Soviet role in Cuba. As late as mid-July, Defense Secretary Harold Brown assured Senator Frank Church of the Foreign Relations Committee that this Soviet role had not changed. In August, however, after a U.S. camera satellite photographed a Russian brigade on maneuvers with armored equipment near Havana, the U.S. concluded that a Soviet brigade was in Cuba as a combat unit. When informed of this conclusion, Church made it public, and coupled that with a warning that the Senate would...
Horner assigned a search committee to find a replacement for Wigglesworth early last spring. A minimum of three to five years experience in administration--preferably in fundraising--was one of the committee's criteria in the selection process. The committee recommended Cox and a few others to Horner last August...
Increasing conversion of rental units to condominiums prompted the City Council to demand the regulations in early August...
...August, Nixon withdrew a $750,000 offer for a penthouse after residents of the co-operative voiced oppostion...