Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thurmond and the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Joseph Biden, had other ideas. They drafted a letter to Smith demanding a broad investigation of all the controversial Meese dealings, including the Carter papers. On Wednesday, Meese met with Thurmond, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Republican Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's best friend on Capitol Hill. "We talked about expediting the process," Laxalt explained afterward. But they found no easy way to avoid an outside investigation...
...Carter Papers. The independent counsel may try to find out whether Meese was truthful in asserting that he did not know that the Reagan campaign staff had covertly acquired Carter campaign documents in 1980. Investigators found some such papers in Meese's 1980 campaign files. He denies seeing most of them, a claim that Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum, his chief Judiciary Committee critic, calls "unbelievable...
...Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...
...Hart camp is planning some low blows of its own. Two ads have been pre pared attacking Mondale: one focuses on the Carter Administration's failure to honor the 1976 Democratic platform's call to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem; the other pictures a burning fuse and accuses Mondale of failing to learn "the lessons of Viet Nam" in Central America...
Appointed to the bench in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, Claiborne had been a highly successful local criminal lawyer, numbering reputed Las Vegas mobsters among his satisfied clients. A twice-divorced bachelor with a taste for young women, Claiborne owned three cars and lived in a $250,000 home. From the start, he was not overly hospitable to federal outsiders. He once threatened to jail an IRS agent and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and publicly assailed the Justice Department's local Organized Crime Strike Force for going after "little fish." When the agents went after Big Fish Claiborne, they...