Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of most domestic crude oil effective June 1, a step that would make a trip to the gas station more expensive. At Camp David, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger urged the President to take such action. But Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Counsel Stuart Eizenstat complained that this would be a blow to low-income families. At the very least, they argued, decontrol should be phased in. Nevertheless, a consensus did develop at Camp David that domestic oil must be permitted to climb closer to world market prices in an effort both to discourage...
...special counsel" is assigned to probe those peanut loans
...turned out, Bell's problems were far from over. Trying to resist any comparison with Watergate, Bell made Curran a "special counsel," not a "special prosecutor," the title carried by Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski when they led the investigations that helped to bring about Richard Nixon's downfall. There was one important difference: unlike the special prosecutors, Curran would not have the power to charge anyone on his own. He would first have to get the approval of Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann...
Bell promised that Curran would not be overruled unless "the special counsel's decisions were grossly inconsistent with well-established prosecutorial standards." The Attorney General also said that any veto by Heymann of Curran's request would be reported to Congress and the public. In those circumstances-and the certainty that Republicans would be screaming, "Cover-up!"-Heymann would have needed very strong nerves indeed to veto any request by Curran to prosecute. Said Heymann last week: "I can't imagine...
Republicans in Congress, who had been complaining about the dawdling pace of the peanut probe all along, immediately protested Bell's action, saying that he had not gone far enough to free the special counsel from possible Justice Department interference. Republican Presidential Hopeful Robert Dole called the special counsel role "a perversion of the whole concept of an impartial investigation." Said Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who is also expected to declare for the presidency: "It is not proper for the Administration to be dragged kicking and screaming into this investigation...