Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa: "Ten years ago, the thing to do at a party was for the women and the men to break up into groups. Well, they still do that, but instead of talking about toilet training and where they get their hair done, women are talking about feminism. They discuss what they are doing, and it is definitely more interesting, even more interesting than the men." Her view of women ten years ago may be partly caricature, but the sense of change is real...
...Discernible Duties. The two often turned up in the presidential entourage when Kennedy was traveling. Although assigned no discernible duties, they were with Kennedy in Nassau when he met Macmillan to discuss cancellation of the Skybolt missile program, at Yosemite Park when he plugged conservation measures, at Palm Beach when he was vacationing. They usually were assigned quarters near the President and were code-named "Fiddle" and "Faddle" by the Secret Service...
...Attorney General; and judge the propriety of orders from the White House. Kelley was all for an oversight committee. "Congress must assume a continuing role, not in the initial decision-making process but in the review of our performance," he said. He added: "I think that I can discuss everything but the identity of informants with an oversight committee...
...foreign policy. Only 24 hours after he had returned to Washington from his trip with Ford to China and the Pacific, Kissinger held a one-hour press conference at which he defended his record and revealed that he was canceling plans to go to Moscow this week to discuss the stalemated negotiations over the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). Said Kissinger: "I think there is no sense in going to Moscow until we have our positions prepared in great detail and until we are confident that on the Soviet side there is sufficient understanding...
...letter's sponsors plan to hold a meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 17 to allow Reverend Coleman an opportunity to speak to the Harvard community and discuss some possible response to the firebombings...