Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President spent much of his week cementing relations with Congressmen, Democrats as well as Republicans. He was host at a series of meetings in the Oval Office with legislators, both individually and in small groups, to discuss pending bills. Twice he dropped in on his former colleagues on Capitol Hill. The first time was when he paid tribute to Mike Mansfield, who set a record last week for longevity as Senate majority leader: more than 13½ years. Said Ford: "It proves that people who can negotiate survive better than those who take a flat, adamant attitude." Later...
...week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
...with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come to Washington when the United Nations General Assembly opens next month. The Chief Executive invited Greece's new civilian Premier, Constantine Caramanlis, to visit Washington to discuss the Cyprus crisis, but the Premier decided it would be unwise to leave Athens "at this time...
...INTEREST AND ACTIVISM, two related indicators, cover the people who have the most direct effect on the outcome of elections. Those who ranked high in the "interest" indicator follow political developments regularly through television, radio and print, seldom miss watching a televised presidential address or press conference, like to discuss politics, and often are asked by other people for advice on politics...
...priesthood." What was in question last week, at a hastily convened meeting at Chicago's O'Hare International Tower hotel, was the good order and discipline of the Episcopal Church. For an emergency session of the church's House of Bishops, 150 prelates had assembled to discuss what to do about an extraordinary breach of canon law in the 3.1 million member denomination: the ordination of eleven women as priests last month in Philadelphia (TIME...