Word: daniells
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...critics were Henry Clay and Daniel Webster; the President thus chastised was Andrew Jackson. Throughout U.S. history, the Senate and the Chief Executive have stood in a special relationship, which, at its best, has been a form of creative tension. At times the tension was relaxed to the point of subservience by the White House to the Hill and, occasionally, vice versa; at other times it was heightened into open, relentless hostility. To date, no Senator has publicly used Webster's sort of language about Lyndon Johnson, although Johnson seems to have considerably more than 100 hands. Still...
...pettiest of men. They early established the tradition that any Senator, with only minimal procedural exceptions, can rise at any time to speak on any subject, and from this right evolved the Senate's unique place as the arena where a minority can make itself heard. Said Daniel Webster: "This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence, who know no master and acknowledge no dictation." As for the President, Connecticut's Roger Sherman described "the executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will...
...Costa Rica, elections were held Feb. 6, but not until a fortnight ago, after the vote was certified, did opposition parties finally concede victory. The winner: José Joaquin Trejos, a 49-year-old university professor who edged out Daniel Oduber, 44, the candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party, by a mere 4,200 votes. For Costa Rica, which has no army, the election was only one more in a long chain of peaceful choices at the ballot box; only twice in this century has a Costa Rican President taken power by force. Backed by a coalition of small...
...House dining room, coated with full length portraits of Adamses, is steeped in Veritas. The food, ever since Quincy stole the chef, is too often steeped in grease. But the conversation is lively and long-lived with men like Professor Daniel Seltzer and tutors Neil Harris and Bill Nestrick actually eager to talk with un-dergraduates...
...lucid, 45-page decision replete with psychiatric, legal and historical scholarship, Kaufman suggested that M'Naghten has really been out of date since its formulation in 1843, when Daniel M'Naghten tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel and killed his secretary instead. M'Naghten was so clearly out of his mind, said Kaufman, that his judges found him not guilty on the enlightened theory that his delusion of persecution by Peel had caused the act. The law's attitude toward insanity seemed to have taken an impressive leap forward...