Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to meet with him or talk with him on the telephone whenever the need arose. In addition to that, I saw him regularly at Cabinet meetings...
...blacks and other minorities. Among other things, after eight years of hard work, the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 was passed. Civil rights activists hailed it as the most important civil rights legislation in 20 years. I am just as proud of my role within the Cabinet to maintain a strong federal affirmative-action program and to secure an extension of the Voting Rights Act and to help the President resolve the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University...
...seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference of hard-liners who attempted to thwart the efforts of incoming Party Secretary Zhao to speed the pace of reforms. As Culture...
Newspapers say there is division in the Cabinet on how to handle peaceful protests...
...made commitment of there to five years to the IOP," Royer explained in a recent interview. "Unless I get a Cabinet-level appointment like Thornburgh...