Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laxalt had other important political business to discuss in the Oval Office last Thursday afternoon. "I'd like authorization in writing to go ahead and form the committee for your re-election," said the Nevada Republican. The senior presidential aides in the room-James Baker, Michael Deaver, Edward Rollins-waited for the answer. They all knew that although the President seemed ready to run for another term, he did not want to make it formal at this time. Reluctantly, Reagan agreed with Laxalt's recommendation and gave him the go-ahead...
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Edward L. Kennan '57 said that he was planning to donate early next week adding. "I hope others will do the same--he needs donors. I urge his colleagues, his friends, and members of the community to give him white blood cells...
...time when the state was solidly Republican. He was an advisor to the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert Kennedy '48, served as Eugene McCarthy's floor manager at the Chicago convention of 1968, and held the post of deputy campaign manager for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 in the last presidential race...
...notion of a G.O.P. double-§- cross was first planted in O'Neill's ear by California Congressman Edward Roybal, one of the eleven-member Hispanic caucus. Roybal admits that he first heard it as dinner gossip, but as evidence, he produced a letter from Attorney General William French Smith to the House Judiciary Committee expressing Administration reservations concerning the House version of the bill. Rumors supposedly emanating from the White House also hinted of a presidential veto...
...English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have been warm...