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...same day, 62 Senators on Capitol Hill voted to urge the President to tread into that territory and put an end to two decades of rancor with Vietnam. Although the Senate bill was nonbinding, its call to lift the 19- year-long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that...
...Once an issue arises, the president, the vicepresidents or the deans figure out what the policyshould be for the University and then we starttalking to people on Capitol Hill," Nixon says...
Nixon says a good deal of her time is spent inmeetings determining policy and lobbyingstrategies rather than in conversation withlegislators themselves. But she adds that she alsospends some time at the Capitol waiting for achance word with senators and representatives...
...past, I've spent a lot of time in the[Capitol] hallways," Nixon says...
Michael Jackson owned the rights to the Lennon and McCartney composition, Capitol Records owned the original masters, and so for $500,000 Nike was allowed to use the actual voices of the Beatles...