Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration is pledged to lead the U.S. from "an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." However, few doubt that Richard Nixon will seek the counsel of men from both eras. His first two major decisions were, in effect, announcements that the new President would not be rushed from one to the other. He altered but preserved the basic plans for a dubious anti-ballistic-missile system. Even while concentrating on negotiations at the peace table in Paris, he continued to prosecute the war in Viet Nam at a cautious but undiminished pace. The task of defending those decisions...
...also served as Tax Legislative Counsel of the Treasury Department, and as special counsel to a House subcommittee which studied income tax laws...
...established for himself a permanent place in the legal profession's hall of fame. "There is no better trial lawyer in the U.S. than me," he says unblushingly. And he may well be right. During a career covering more than 40 years, he has served as defense counsel in at least 1,500 capital cases in hometown Houston and other cities. By his own count, a mere 64 of his clients were sentenced to prison and only one was executed. That was a convicted killer named Steve Mitchell, who Foreman still insists was "as sweet and kind a person...
...combines a superbly skilled legal mind with a brilliant sense of showmanship. In one case, he defended a woman who had killed her husband, a cattleman, because he had flogged her with a whip. As he addressed the jury, Foreman kept picking up the long black whip from the counsel table and cracking it ferociously. By the time he was through, the jury seemed willing to award the lady a Medal of Honor...
...most positive way of fitting them into the context of the horoscope. Then he looks ahead, shaping predictions so that they amount to constructive counsel. The client might have been better advised to consult a psychiatrist, marriage counselor, physician, lawyer or employment agency. But there are many troubled people who refuse to accept personal responsibility for their lives, insisting that some outer force is in control. For these, a first-class astrologer can seem a necessity?and perhaps...