Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memoirs--which are now in their final stage of editing--until after midnight. Three or four days a week, Nixon breaks away from his literary efforts for a couple of hours to play a quick nine holes of golf with his government-paid chief of staff, Lt. Col. Jack Brennan...
...aging were a series of brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling many mines for eight weeks. Though Miller personally appealed to the men to go back, his pleas were ignored. Mine owners-whose negotiating team is headed by Joseph Brennan, 42, a onetime U.M.W. official-contend that buyers are becoming reluctant to purchase U.M.W.-mined coal, because there is no assurance of continued supply...
...narrow grounds, i.e., limited to Bakke alone. The case could be sent back to California courts because the record is inadequate (as a much argued over Justice Department brief urged), or the court might rule that a limited state or federal law governed the case. As Justice William Brennan reminded Attorney Colvin, "Ordinarily we don't decide constitutional questions" if another, less sweeping ground is available. Another possible ruling-and one that could result in Allan Bakke's admission, at 38, to the freshman medical class at Davis next fall-would hold that racial quotas are not permissible...
...vote, the Supreme Court last week rejected five separate arguments by Nixon that the law violated his constitutional rights and, unfairly, applied only to him. Senior Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. declared that Nixon was "a legitimate class of one," a proper target for special treatment by Congress because of the danger that Nixon might destroy evidence...
...Brennan's opinion carefully underlined the singularity of the Nixon case, attributing the law to "a context unique in the history of the Presidency." Two of the six concurring Justices forcefully reiterated that the law set no precedent for future congressional dealings with departing Presidents...