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Virtually every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan has conspired, if a bit reluctantly, to validate the legislative veto. From its first use, in a Government reorganization bill signed 51 years ago this week, it has been a bargaining chip: in exchange for a small concession of power, a...
As the President admitted, the 850 figure had never been deemed that important by U.S. arms negotiators. It also stood in the way of a concession that Reagan made to Congress in order to win support for the MX: moving toward a nuclear deterrent based on larger numbers of smaller...
But there may have been a lot less to this compromise than met the eye. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, for one, described the practical effect of the U.S. concession on currency intervention as exceedingly limited: "We've agreed to talk about it more. We will call each other up...
Divestiture did not become an issue in its own right until 1972 when 30 Black students, members of the Harvard based Pan African Liberation Committee occupied the administrative offices in Massachusetts Hall in an attempt to force Harvard to sell $21 million worth of stock in the Gulf Oil Company...
That most movements these days do not escalate into all-out wars against the administration is due in large part to the University's deft handling. To repeated divestiture protests, the administration can always respond by providing an open forum of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a mostly impotent...