Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same morning, said the investigators, Nixon telephoned former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who "did discuss the milk producers and reminded the President of their political contribution 'potential.' " Fifteen minutes later, Nixon met at the White House with dairy cooperative executives and told them that he was "very grateful" for their support. The following day, the President instructed the Agriculture Department to raise support levels. But before the decision was announced, Kalmbach met with milk-cooperative executives to confirm the link between the pledge of $2 million and the price hike...
...April 1973, President Nixon was looking for a new, permanent FBI director. He improperly offered the job to Federal Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr., who was then presiding over the trial of Daniel Ellsberg and refused to discuss it. Last week it became known that Nixon made the same unethical proposition at around the same time to Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, who was then in charge of the Watergate investigation...
...form its own government-in-exile. But now, possibly this week at the annual meeting of the P.L.O.'s 179-member National Council in Cairo, the organization may have to reach a decision. For one thing, with a Syrian and Egyptian disengagement concluded, the time has come to discuss the West Bank and Jerusalem. Israelis, who refuse to negotiate with the Palestinians, have already begun attempts to persuade Washington to deal directly with Hussein, thus cutting Arafat...
Summerlin may not have known that the ophthalmologists who worked with him on the corneal transplants had revised the protocols for the study. But his explanation of the mouse painting, which he says he tried to discuss with Good that same day, makes little sense. Other aspects of Summerlin's defense seem frail indeed. It is difficult to support Summerlin's suspicion that Good, who had been his mentor at the University of Minnesota, turned on him and attempted to force him out of S.K.I.; as director of the institute, Good could have got rid of Summerlin without...
...real people to recreate and explain what had occurred. Whatever the cause, a certain dogged clumsiness prevails throughout, as when Ross ruminates aloud, "Many of the staff don't think I have any emotion," or when he and his successor, Paul Ssali, play a game of darts and discuss the difficulties of change...