Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boycott Harvard Provision! Boycott Gallo! Boycott Grapes! Art Torres Fellow, Institute of Politics Assemblyman Elect...
When President-elect Nixon asked me to come to work for him in December 1968, he volunteered at a press conference that I would be able to stay for two years. More than once, perhaps, I considered leaving sooner, but I stayed until December 1970, exactly as originally agreed. I had been offered the United Nations ambassadorship, but had declined. In the two years that followed I wrote two books, organized a course at Harvard, served on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. and stayed out of politics. Then the President called to ask me to go to India...
...Politics might cite the consummate political skill with which he led the fight to keep Congress from stopping the bombing of Cambodia. But newspapers gave little attention to such day-to-day details, preferring to focus on the more startling although less murderous activities of the Committee to Re-elect the President...
...Republican Senator Peter Dominick, 59, who will be running again in November. Hart charged that Dominick, the chairman of the Senate's Republican Campaign Committee, had concealed the source of money received in 1972 from a dairy cooperative and passed it on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. "Hogwash," said Dominick. Hart, he said, was "a liar...
Less than a year ago, he was one of the last absolute monarchs on earth. He appointed governments, made laws, and held life-and-death power over his 26 million subjects. Since February, the once unchallengeable powers of the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings, Elect of God, Emperor of Ethiopia have gradually been taken away by the reformist young military officers who now dominate his country. Last week even the titles were gone; Haile Selassie, 82, was deposed from the imperial throne he had occupied for almost a half-century...