Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealthy philanthropist, former congressmen, and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, Littauer hoped to establish a school to provide training in a "broad way for public service...
Such contacts have helped the school gain government grants and contracts, including a $1.6 million annual contract to teach management to senior defense officials. The school also conducts "executive seminars" for newly elected congressmen, mayors, state and local officials and sub-cabinet officials...
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the only institution of its kind within a U.S. university, teaches governance to 700 full-time students and is host at any given time to some 600 government officials -- Congressmen, Governors, big- and little-city mayors and Cabinet members -- who flock there for guidance...
...Defense Department has the power of the purse on its side. "The Governors can't get too cocky," contends a Pentagon official, "or we'll shut off their faucet." Indeed, the Defense Department indirectly threatened to do just that last week. In an attempt to rally Governors and Congressmen against more defense budget cuts, the Pentagon raised the possibility that the National Guard would be seriously hurt by the reductions. For some 140,000 Guardsmen, that could mean unwelcome discharges and even more unwelcome weekends spent mowing the lawn at home rather than patrolling the bush abroad...
Such contacts have helped the school gain government grants and contracts, including a $1.6 million annual contract to teach management to senior defense officials. The school also conducts "executive seminars" for newly elected congressmen, mayors, state and local officials and sub-cabinet officials...