Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SALT II. And even as Teng was on his way home, White House Science Adviser Frank Press was arriving in Moscow. There Press emphasized that the U.S.Chinese agreements on science and technology contained nothing that was not already available to the U.S.S.R. Press also signed an accord setting next year...
Why all the fuss over a subject that does not normally raise such passion? Rosalynn Carter, as honorary chairwoman of the President's Commission on Mental Health, was appearing before Senator Edward Kennedy's Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Washington tingled at the prospect. Not since Eleanor...
Rosalynn, who has been interested in mental health since her days as First Lady of Georgia, was disappointed that so little attention had been paid to the report of her commission last April. Among its 117 recommendations were improvement of care for the chronically mentally ill, incentive funds for states...
Ted Kennedy met his witness in his private office, escorted her personally to the hearing table and adroitly placed himself in a situation where the wife of the President joined him in proclaiming the need for increased spending for social services. Budget-minded Jimmy Carter could only grin and bear...
Lopez Portillo announced that Carter had asked Reubin Askew, former governor of Florida, to head a congressionally-mandated commission to report by 1980 on immigration and refugee problems, an issue not resolved during the summit.