Word: claiming
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...rejection of Clement Haynsworth [Nov. 28] clearly shows that Congress has gotten the message: while the election of Nixon indicated great disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson, it was not the public mandate for ultraconservatism and political patronage that the Nixon-Agnew forces claim...
...lower prices. To ensure that no one escapes taxes entirely, the bill requires that taxes be paid on at least 50% of all income. The Senate also blunted the effect of a presidential measure approved by the House: the repeal of the 7% tax credit that businessmen can claim on new equipment. The Administration wants to abolish the credit in order to slow down a capital-investment boom, but the Senate voted to exempt all equipment purchases under $20,000-an amendment that would cost $720 million of the $6.5 billion in revenue that the Administration hopes to gain from...
...presidential veto. As a further complication, the bill contains an extension to next July 1 of the 5% surcharge that Nixon has requested as an anti-inflationary measure. Thus the congressional Democrats have the best of all political-if not economic-worlds. If Nixon signs the bill, they can claim credit for tax reduction and blame the Administration for inflation. If he vetoes it, they can blame him for both inflation and high taxes. Last week Mills promised that the President would receive the final results of Congress's labors before Christmas...
...delegates, professed total commitment to eliminating hunger. He said: "On May 6, I asserted to the Congress that 'the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time.' Speaking for this Administration, I not only accept that responsibility, I claim the responsibility." In the same speech, however, Nixon betrayed a certain insensitivity in an anecdote that unwittingly underlined the vast gulf between the affluent and the hungry in America. Once when he went on a diet, Nixon told the meeting, "the doctor had told me to eat cottage cheese. The difficulty...
Brady obviously has quite a bit to live up to, but his alleged larceny may have given him a good start. And his statements to the press last month, upon his return showed that he has some claim for canonization...