Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This equalizing effect occurs because television most rewards not words or achievements but coronas of personality. Ted Koppel often seems more knowledgeable than the experts he questions, and George Will triumphantly bolder than Cabinet members who, unlike him, must bear policy responsibility for what they say. It took another corona of personality, Ronald Reagan, to reduce the dominance of the Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar...
...speaking, security forces surrounded the bleached white presidential palace next to the ancient ruins of Carthage. Though there were rumors that Bourguiba had been spirited out of the capital, officials insisted he remained cloistered in the palace. However, two Cabinet ministers were arrested, and some of the President's closest associates, including his powerful niece Saida Sassi and his son Habib Bourguiba Jr., were said to be under house arrest. No violence or resistance to the coup was reported...
Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell resigned in 1984, weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...
...Deaver could have been telling the truth when he told a congressional subcommittee and then a grand jury that he could not remember details about lobbying efforts that may have violated federal conflict-of-interest laws. Deaver claimed not to recall meetings or telephone conversations with White House and Cabinet officials during which he allegedly pushed for favors for clients such as TWA, Rockwell International, Philip Morris and the governments of Canada, South Korea and Puerto Rico...
...decision by the governor and cabinet is being closely watched because Bayside has filed plans for extensive development on the Key Largo site. The land is ranked first on a list of more than 60 environmentally sensitive properties the state seeks to purchase for protection...