Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon as Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker finished their pas de deux in the West Wing press room, Congressmen tried to put a cautiously upbeat spin on the news. "It seems logical once you get over the first surprise," ventured Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's something I wouldn't have thought of," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. "But it turns out it's a good switch...
Jackson also called for a March 11 "people's pilgrimage of conscience" to Washington. D.C. to "tell out Senators and Congressmen about the consequences of poverty and hunger...
...Dartmouth in the book. But more importantly, there goes Ben Hart again, trying to claim art and Babe Ruth for the Republicans. The dispiritedness and aimlessness of liberals today feeds this sort of foolishness. Liberals themselves made similar claims in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson and a slew of liberal Congressmen seemed to sweep Republicans into eternal oblivion. The Republicans came back swinging...
...Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra forces battling the Sandinista regime. The main opposition parties did not participate...
...Navy contractors. Among the presents: a $695 pair of diamond earrings mounted on 18-karat gold and a $430 jade necklace. Rickover says those baubles went to his wife, but that he passed most of the other "trinkets"-gold pendants, desk sets, ship models-on to Congressmen and then wives...