Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet should be reorganized and given more authority. The Cabinet originally consisted of only five men, the Secretaries of State, War and Treasury, Attorney General and Postmaster General, and several of these, notably Jefferson and Hamilton, saw themselves as future Presidents. Today the Cabinet numbers 17, and, as with the White House staff, several unnecessarily represent the demands of special interests for special attention (the foremost example, the Department of Education, was created mainly because teachers' unions wanted it). Since it is an iron law that committees lose effectiveness in inverse ratio to their size, the Cabinet...
...jeer" debate, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in for a bruising confrontation as she rose from the government front bench last week to answer hostile opposition challenges about the country's unemployment, the worst since the 1930s. Days earlier, when she wore a black dress, Labor M.P. William Hamilton had pointed a taunting finger at her and inquired derisively, "Is she dressed in black because of the unemployment figures?" Now she was meticulously turned out in a tailored gray suit, a soft white bow at her neck, to face another onslaught. In her coolly accented voice, she delivered a forceful...
...chairs in the Cabinet Room, readying them for their new occupants. An announcement was made that there would be a scheduling meeting in the Roosevelt Room. "Where is the Roosevelt Room?" someone asked. Shirley Moore, secretary to Top Aide Michael Deaver, received her first phone call. The caller wanted Hamilton Jordan. "He's not here any more," she said. The caller asked for Jack Watson then. "No, they're all gone now," she said. "We're the new folks in town, and we're in charge...
...Washington, where it was 1:50 p.m. when the jet cleared Iranian airspace, the State Department began informing the families that the hostages were free at last. Carter quickly got the word too, and his airborne party, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Jack Watson and Stuart Eizenstat, struggled with laughter and tears at the same time. Phil Wise rushed into the plane's press section to paraphrase a Martin Luther King Jr. line that applied aptly to both the Carter Administration officials and the hostages: "We're free, we're free; thank God almighty, we're free...
...that end, a group of U.S. physicians, headed by Harvard Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller, has organized International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc. They have recruited several eminent Americans, including Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith. They also got a strong endorsement from Chazov, who wrote: "The medical profession should more actively protest against the senseless policy of increasing arsenals of thermonuclear arms...