Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign yet of President Jimmy Carter's determination to carry out a campaign promise to send such a mission to Hanoi. Carter reiterated that pledge in January at a confidential meeting with seven U.S. Congressmen. On that occasion, Carter mentioned U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young or veteran Envoy Averell Harriman as possible heads of the peace team. But he emphasized that he will direct the course of any negotiations personally from the White House...
Fisher has taught at the Law School since 1958, after serving as an assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General and as an aide to W. Averell Harriman, then ambassador to France. He also orginated the public television series "The Advocates...
This is one Washington institution that Carter is not likely to be able to change and may even help perpetuate. Says Pamela Harriman, wife of Democratic Elder Statesman Averell Harriman: "We are all going to do more or less what we've always done, but with new faces, of course...
...nominee as CIA director: Theodore Sorensen, 48. Ready to bear witness against him were representatives of assorted conservative and right-wing groups, including the Liberty Lobby and the John Birch Society. Prepared to defend him were some of the ornaments of the Eastern liberal Establishment such as Averell Harriman and Clark Clifford...
...Party; when it began to take on a Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also very clever...