Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, over the sweltering Labor Day weekend, Nixon flew from San Clemente back to the White House to confer with Vice President Spiro Agnew over the continuing Federal investigation of possible bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax fraud that threatens Agnew's future. Inevitably, rumors swirled that the President and his semi-estranged Vice President were heading for a confrontation-that Nixon might even ask for Agnew's resignation. On both sides, press spokesmen vigorously denied that any resignation was even being considered...
...provision in the 1968 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which stated that nothing in the act "shall limit the constitutional power of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect the nation against" national security threats. But that phrase, as Wilson conceded, did not confer any fresh power on the President. Indeed the Administration had once argued that the phrase justified tapping the telephones of domestic security risks without a warrant, only to lose in the Supreme Court by a resounding 8-0 tally in the famous Plamondon case (formally known...
Viet Nam peace negotiations have by now acquired a certain déjá vu quality. Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho confer in Paris and make a tentative deal...
...asks them. The Chief Justice makes procedural rulings, like any trial judge, but a majority of the Senators can overrule him, deciding, for instance, to admit or exclude a particular piece of evidence. The Senators, unlike ordinary jurors, are also free to wander in and out or even to confer with outsiders...
...inexpressive system, and therein, admittedly, lay much of its beauty. But Picasso was also a master of expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation into a form than this Spaniard, engaged in his lifelong conversation with Eros...