Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The President next attempted to soft-pedal the issue in a speech on Tuesday to the national convention of the American Legion in Salt Lake City. There he voiced a more traditional defense of the separation of religion from Government mandated by the Constitution, acknowledging that the nation's...
At the Republican Convention, fundamentalist ministers were conspicuous. There was the letter by Senator Laxalt, suggesting that God wants Americans to vote Republican and that the Christian thing to do is re-elect Ronald Reagan. The President himself suggested as much. It all amounts to saying that what is desirable...
Although Edwin Meese still attends many high-level White House meetings and quietly visited the Republican National Convention in Dallas, he has pretty much dropped from public prominence. But Ronald Reagan's Presidential Counsellor and nominee for Attorney General has re-emerged in the news. Jacob Stein, the special...
Drafted with U.S. help in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust, the convention defines "any attempt to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group" as an international crime. The treaty has been approved by 93 nations. U.S. ratification has been blocked repeatedly by Senate adherents...
Mulroney was catapulted to prominence in 1974, when he was appointed to a three-member commission investigating corruption in the Quebec construction industry. Thousands of Canadians followed the panel's televised hearings, which seethed with daily testimonies of bribes and beatings. Mulroney and his fellow commission members received several...