Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROUND 1. In 1972, as fears of a fuel shortage became widespread for the first time, a federal interdepartmental task force, under the direction of White House Aide Peter Flanigan, started drafting a presidential energy message. Late in the year, the message reachedJohn Ehrlichman, then Nixon's chief domestic adviser, who recognized a fertile political issue and moved to put the planning under his control. Objecting to the draft's urgent tone (its writers dared to use the word crisis), Ehrlichman ordered extensive revisions...
...became a dangerous crowd of misfits. It was an easy charm. For these were lean years in New York: there were the AFL's Titans, a truly awful football team; the Knicks, who couldn't buy a bucket; and the Rangers, who perennially challenged the Boston Bruins for early draft picks...
...burn our draft cards down...
...possibility this year. No dates were mentioned, however, and Western envoys are now more or less resigned to the likelihood that the constitutional crisis over the Watergate tapes and the plight of Vice President Agnew will force Nixon to postpone his visit until 1974. Kissinger looked over a draft proposal outlining long-range Common Market goals and priorities and politely suggested that the nine nations try for something more specific than vague generalities. Both the U.S. and the members of the European Economic Community would like to have a formal agreement to sign, if and when Nixon goes to Europe...
Columbia is not expected to throw up too much resistance in today's meet. "I don't have any information on Columbia." McCurdy said, "but unless they got first draft pick on all the high school stars, they should not be a team factor...