Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignore it. He called his older lieutenants on Capitol Hill-the "early birds" who helped him resurrect his political career for a run at the White House in 1968 -for a cocktail party last week. They included John Tower of Texas, Paul Fannin of Arizona, Robert Dole of Kansas. They met for an hour, exchanged cordial remarks and received presidential gifts. The same day, Nixon held another meeting, this one with New York Senator James Buckley. Neither would discuss the details of the meeting, but the President more than likely sought to answer affirmatively the question Brother Bill had posed...
...fate of the men. the families have developed a diplomat's sensitivity to the nuances of negotiating ploys. While the majority views Hanoi's latest offer with sad skepticism, the wariness has begun to extend to the public statements of American officials. Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole's recent statement that there were "just" 1,600 men missing in Indochina sent shock waves through the tightly knit family organizations, as did Secretary of State William Rogers' insistence that the U.S. "can't absolutely abandon our national objectives to pay ransom." The deferential briefings from...
...Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford. President Nixon underscored the significance he attached to the primary domestic project of his presidential term. The bill, designated the first piece of legislation introduced in the 92nd Congress, aims at the most important overhauling of the welfare system since the beginning of the dole. Its key section is Title IV, which calls for the end of the present Rube Goldbergian structure and in its place the establishment of Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, setting a guaranteed annual income of $2,400 for a family of four...
...Dole averages a speech a day. The subjects of his partisan assaults in the Senate and from rostrums around the U.S. have run the gamut of Administration hobgoblins...
...Rabbit. That last charge embarrassed even Dole. Still, under Dole's approving eye, Nofziger continues to zero in on such Democratic weak points as Muskie's temper tantrums and Hubert Humphrey's vice presidential stance on the war. In a recent "analytical piece" on opposition candidates, for example, Monday damned Humphrey for being "as wrapped up in the blunders and errors of the Viet Nam War in the '60s as Br'er Rabbit was in the Tar-Baby...