Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political maturity under Roosevelt, was very much attuned to constitutional battles. The supreme legislator of this century as a Senator, L.B.J. noticeably changed his tack when he got in the White House. "I'm not going to leave this job weaker than when I came in," he told his counsel, Harry McPherson. But for all his muscle flexing, Johnson chose to retire rather than run for re-election in the teeth of the Viet Nam protests. Six years later, Nixon would resign, swept from power by public disapproval and Congress's instigation of impeachment proceedings. The Executive arrogance and excess...
...there is any matter on which the original intent of the founders is clear, it is the issue of slavery. Says Columbia Law Professor Jack Greenberg, former director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "The original Constitution not only accepted slavery, but it gave the South a bonus for it" -- the stipulation in Article I, Section 3 that in apportioning Representatives for the House, "three fifths of all other persons" should be added to the "whole number of free persons...
...Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, has been pressing for revisions in that spirit. "In the parliamentary systems of Western Europe and Japan . . . the Prime Minister's success rate is very close to 100%," says Cutler, former counsel to President Carter. "The American system today is only four-fifths as efficient when we achieve party government and only two- thirds as efficient when we have divided government...
...porn? What harm does it do? According to the moral right wing, lots. "Erotic material is addictive, like drugs or alcohol," says Paul McGeady, general counsel for the watchdog lobby Morality in Media. "A husband says he wants to see what all this is about and buys a porn videocassette. But he is not satisfied with one that shows ordinary intercourse. Then he fantasizes that he is doing what he sees on the tape. Finally, he turns to his wife and wants to act out kinky sex. She says, 'Get lost!,' and the marriage breaks up." Nor is porn...
...knowing what would be said by his former boss, ex- National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is due up as a witness early next month? Or could North's testimony be so explosive that he would not risk exposing it to a leak from the private sessions? Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh is not expected to start legal action against North before his congressional appearance. Could the refusal to testify be an attempt to pressure Walsh into indicting him -- thus providing North with a solid argument against the jeopardy of giving any testimony before Congress...