Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip home to Minneapolis, Humphrey told a Jefferson-Jackson Day audience of 3,000: "There are people who talk about Asians as if they lived on some other planet. We even hear that only Asians should concern themselves with Asia. If we heeded such counsel 25 years ago, where would we-and the Asians-be now?" He continued: "Are we to be put in the position of saying that we are able to keep our commitments to white people, not to brown people and yellow people?" Next day, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's state central committee...
General Motors President Roche himself ended the six-hour hearings. After consulting with Theodore C. Sorensen, President Kennedy's onetime aide and Roche's blue-ribbon special counsel for the hearing, he returned to the witness chair to make a second apology. Said he, in a statement aimed as much at his own underlings as at the Senators or the public: "It will not be our policy in the future to undertake investigation of those who speak or write critically of our products...
...Administrative Counsel to Congress -- an official pointed by the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate. He would handle petty complaints of the constituents of congressmen...
...station house, every arrested person must be immediately advised that he has a right to silence, that anything he says may be held against him, that he may promptly call (with police cash) and have access to counsel, relatives or friends. The warning and questioning must be tape-recorded...
...exclude illegal confessions and such "poisonous fruits" as incriminating leads gathered from inadmissible statements. The drafters have stirred intense controversy by 1) approving some interrogation without lawyers present, and 2) not calling for free lawyers for all indigent suspects-thus admittedly giving an advantage to anyone able to afford counsel. The drafters argue that the U.S. simply does not have enough lawyers to represent every arrested indigent. They point to such other pioneering safeguards as tape-recording, and conclude that their whole code gives arrested persons "greater protections than are presently provided anywhere in the U.S." Will that be enough...