Word: governability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. Director: Dr. Dixy Lee Ray. Total employees: 7,000. Overall budget: $2,500,000,000. Established in 1946 to govern development of atomic energy. Also maintains a constant watch on the atomic capabilities of other countries, detecting and identifying nuclear tests...
...again on the Potomac overlook, and Caulfield warned: quot;The President's ability to govern is at stake. Another Teapot Dome scandal is possible, and the Government may fall. Everybody else is on track but you. You are not following the game plan. You seem to be pursuing your own course of action. Do not talk if called before the grand jury; keep silent and do the same if called before a congressional committee.quot; But McCord reiterated that he would not make any deal...
...justice done, one of his ousted aides threatened to implicate the President himself in a conspiracy to conceal White House involvement. The charge, whatever its ultimate authenticity and force, was only the latest of an incredible series of revelations and accusations that clouded the President's ability to govern and produced an unprecedented moral crisis for his Administration...
...Baxley began openly maneuvering to run for Governor. In a speech last winter that received national attention, Harold Martin, editor-publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser and the Alabama Journal, urged Wallace either to retire for the good of the state or appoint a committee of businessmen to help him govern...
...Tanaka government was not only embarrassed by the cancellation but fearful that it might be interpreted in Washington as an anti-U.S. snub. Though the episode did cloud Nixon's hopes of paying a visit to Japan in 1974, the Administration saw the unfortunate affair as merely the latest indication of the Tanaka government's slipping ability to govern...