Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Whitehead testified, Reagan said from the White House, "I didn't make any mistakes" and declared that "I'm not firing anybody." The president then sat down with members of his Cabinet and top advisers to weigh new moves, amid a crescendo of calls by members of Congress for a White House shakeup...
President Aquino has drawn her Cabinet from across the spectrum of her coalition. She has acted courageously to bring about a new order. She is standing firmly for reconciliation with the left opposition. She has approved an economic plan that emphasizes rural employment and increasing rural incomes and is working to rebuild an open free enterprise economy...
...doctor's knee, it seems a daring bit of coquetry; nothing more need be revealed. Then at night Alexander hears a radio report of an imminent World War III. He rushes downstairs; a sonic burst sets the house reverberating; a pitcher of milk tumbles slowly from its cabinet and breaks on the floor. Alexander snaps...
...first news conference in nearly three months, Reagan said Secretary of State George Shultz will stay in his Cabinet post, despite his scarcely disguised opposition to the arms sale. "He has made it plain he would stay as long as I want him, and I want him," the president said...
Laurel's bitterness and frustration finally erupted last week. He skipped the weekly Cabinet meeting, claiming that he had a cold. A few hours later, however, he held a press conference at which he urged that voters decide when they want new presidential elections. Until now, the election question has been subsumed under the larger issue of a recently drafted constitution. The charter, which grants both Aquino and Laurel six-year terms, will be put to a yes-no vote on Jan. 23. Last week Laurel turned on Aquino by proposing that the plebiscite should include a separate question...