Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
...that, barring some dramatic turn in favor of the President, the outcome is virtually decided. After an informal member-by-member analysis, the Democrats concluded that the House is now disposed to vote for impeachment by a margin of at least 55 votes. The lineup, according to the Democratic count: 245 (including 210 Democrats and 35 Republicans) for impeachment; 190 (38 Democrats and 152 Republicans) against. "That's our minimum figure," declares a ranking Democrat, insisting that the leaders counted only the sure votes for impeachment...
...clear majorities exist today. Says Massachusetts' State Representative Barney Frank: "Up to World War II, there were many more majority-type issues than there are now?Social Security, labor benefits, social and economic programs. Today most issues are not of concern to the majority, and we can't count on it to be self-sacrificing enough to pass them." Of course, inflation is becoming the new majority concern, along with such matters as energy, health care and food prices. But constructing new majorities for action, and creating even the beginnings of a new consensus, remains the most formidable task...
...cover the Faneuil Hall beat for the meeting, where organizations such as the National Organization for Women and Woman Power Newsletter spent almost two hours skeptically questioning HEW's Gwenn Gregory about the new guidelines. The Boston police officer was right, you could count the number of men in the 300 occupied seats on your hands--and half of them were the camera crews for local television stations. But just in case there was any trouble the officer had assigned a big burly male sargeant to stand outside of the hall. You know, for insurance. Or maybe they were afraid...
When a crew loses two of its key oarsmen just prior to a race like Henley, you can usually count that boat out as a possible contender for a trophy as prestigious as the Thames Cup. So when the Harvard varsity lightweight crew learned that number two man Paul McKenna had an infection in his heart and number seven Todd Howard had eligibility problems, thus preventing both from going to England, the lights' chances of victory seemed out the window...