Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program is designed to provide Americans between the ages of 23 and 35 with firsthand experience in the "process of governing the nation...
...friends, was "going to be pure pleasure." It would offer "a lot of intellectual fascination." Last week was indeed a fascinating one for Bork. Having been catapulted into the position of Acting Attorney General as a result of the Cox affair, the professor who came to Washington to gain firsthand knowledge of the Supreme Court found himself at the center of a political storm. It was Bork who fired Cox on Nixon's orders, and it was Bork who was given the all but impossible job of finding a successor satisfactory to the President, the Congress and the public...
Students are free to smoke in the toilet and take food into the classroom. They sharpen their wits by playing a classroom version of the television game show Jeopardy. Field trips have included a canoe trip to learn firsthand how pollutants poison a river. A recent guest lecturer gave a frank talk on how to run a quick-fry chicken outlet...
...December is to take him, in at least 40 separate appearances, to every section of the nation. Like his talk in Kansas City, about half are scheduled for strictly Republican audiences-the middle-ranking committee members and fund raisers who feel that they have a right to a firsthand look at the party's newest star and who can be very helpful at a nominating convention if they like him. "I'm going to pace myself a little better next year," Connally claims. "I did get a little too heavily committed this fall. But I enjoy...
...usual, the President was sealed off from any firsthand range of opinion and advice. But in this case the elaborate exercise in isolation was perhaps part of a deliberate attempt to put as much distance as possible between the presidency and the Watergate revelations. The complicated filtering process was almost bizarre. Every day three White House aides back in Washington monitored the hearings. Then the verbatim transcripts were transmitted to the Western White House. From these, Haig, who reportedly had not watched the hearings either, boiled down a summary for the President...