Word: confirms
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Although the appointment is subject to Dean Dunlop's approval, rejection of the department's recommendation would be very unusual. Both Kearns and James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, refused to confirm or discuss the appointment, which takes effect July...
Subpoena. The idea of executive privilege for Flanigan particularly angered North Carolina's Ervin, the Senate's reigning constitutionalist, who called the White House claim "absurd." Noncommittal until then on the Kleindienst confirmation, Ervin made it plain that he would not vote to confirm until Flanigan appears before the committee. "If the President wants to make his nominee for Attorney General the sacrificial lamb on the altar of executive privilege," he rumbled ominously, "that will be his responsibility and not mine...
...beyond reliable reconstruction. For a short time, while attending Colgate, Powell passed for white and was heard to say of his fair complexion: "It's some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born...
...Communists' Easter concessions were timed to place maximum pressure on West Germany to confirm the treaties of Warsaw and Moscow, which will be submitted to the Bundestag in early May. Unless Bonn ratifies the treaties, the Berlin agreement, and its clauses about freer access, will not go into effect. Hence, the East Germans and their Soviet supporters in effect were saying: "See, this is how it is going to be if the treaties are ratified. If they aren't, forget it." The Communists have hinted that the situation will get worse if Bonn fails to follow through...
...your issue of March 14 you published a report by Mark Frazier that upper-income condominiums might be built on the JFK Library site, and you quoted me as a member of the Neighborhood 10 Association who confirmed that report. Since I am not a member of that group I am not in a position to confirm the report, nor to speak for the Association. Specifically, I cannot state that the Association plans to fight any upper income or high-rise housing that might be constructed, although I certainly hope that it will, along with many other people in this...