Word: governors
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This takes guts," remarked Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton last week as he signed an official document...
Dukakis's most serious problem, however, may be deciding what to do with himself in the future. The former governor freely admits that he may find additional work--possibly with the federal government, or perhaps in television, the medium that gave him his public start as moderator of "The Advocates...
...work not of ETA but of another group of Marxist terrorists, GRAPO (for Oct 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups), which the authorities had thought was in decline. But ETA was responsible for the assassination two weeks ago of General Constantino Ortin Gil, 63, Madrid's military governor, and the shooting of a policeman who died last week. Then, at week's end, bombs of ETA manufacture killed two more policemen...
After three terms as Alabama Governor, and a decade as the redneck gadfly of American politics, George Corley Wallace, 59, was taking a break, and a crowd of 4,000 gathered in Montgomery to say goodbye. "I don't know whether there'll be any political future or not," Wallace told them, "so I'll just say so long for a while and God bless you." Earlier he had listened teary-eyed to words of tribute. "You might be sitting in that chair today, but to those of us who love you, you still stand and walk...
...process in 1788, Alexander Hamilton confidently predicted that the judiciary would be "the least dangerous" branch of the new Government, since judges would not have the power of the purse or of the sword. Indeed, the first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, who resigned to be Governor of New York, refused President John Adams' invitation to return, saying that the court lacked "weight and dignity." It was the fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, who gave the federal bench real clout. Marshall, who believed that a judge should be responsible not to Congress or the President...