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...President may notify the leaders of Congress when he is able to resume his duties. The second procedure, which did not apply to the current situation, was designed for cases in which a President is not able to determine or declare that he is incapacitated. It permits the Cabinet or some other body designated by Congress to take power from the President if he is unable to function...
...speech. Back in Washington he recovered, only to suffer a second and irreversible stroke. During the final 17 months of his second term, the U.S. was shakily ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Wilson's second wife Edith, his White House secretary, Joe Tumulty, and his doctor, Cary Grayson. Cabinet meetings petered out slowly. The first one, held in almost complete, shocked silence, as Wilson's mind wandered, came six months after the stroke. During the course of these meetings, Edith was always close by, and Wilson's attending physician would pop in every few minutes to check...
...their overwhelming support of former Rhodesian Leader Ian Smith in the general elections four weeks ago. In a move that one disbelieving farmer called "a prime example of cutting off your nose to spite your face," Mugabe dismissed Minister of Agriculture Denis Norman, who is white, from his Cabinet...
...years is enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country." If he were the President, says Momberg, "I'd bring Chief Buthelezi into my Cabinet. I'd scrap the bloody three-way Parliament and bring the whites, the Indians and the coloreds into one body, and then I'd look for a federal solution for the next phase, bringing in the blacks...
...bring their runaway economy under control. The government slashed the value of the controlled peso, which is used for the purchase of imports, by 20% in an effort to improve the country's trade balance. The new rate: 279 to the dollar. President Miguel de la Madrid and his Cabinet accepted 10% salary cuts, and a host of lower-level officials lost their jobs...