Word: hatchet
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...Robert Dole (R-Kan.), chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and one of the most prominent candidates for Baker's spot. A senator since 1968, Dole gained fame as President Gerald R. Ford's 1976 running mate and hatchet-man; in 1980, he launched an abortive bid of his own for the nation's highest office. Recently dubbed the 14th most influential American in a survey by U.S. News and World Report, Dole has distinguished himself as a Great Compromiser during the current Administration, most notably for his success in reconciling Republicans and Democrats to a key Voting Rights...
...case involves a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in South Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, calls the program a "hatchet job" for alleging that he engaged in a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength. According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly...
...fund's purpose is to further Hatchet's work in inner Asian Studies and to increase public understanding of the subject, John K. Fairbank, Higginson professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee said yesterday...
Leadership. The Reagan campaign likes to refer to Mondale as "Carter-Mondale," to taint him with the image of fecklessness that is associated with Jimmy Carter's term. Again, the hatchet work has been delegated to Bush. He pointedly told voters that a leading Democrat, Mondale's primary opponent Colorado Senator Gary Hart, referred to the Carter Administration's handling of the Iran hostage crisis as "our days of shame." Bush also swiped at Mondale as the tool of "special interests" who is "asking the working people to pay off his billion-dollar promises...
Widely regarded as a conservative hatchet man when he ran for Vice President on Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas has become less acid and more open to compromise; he also has the ability, unique in Washington, to stand up to lobbyists seeking tax loopholes. Yet Baker and Dole seem to lack passion and vision. Dole joshes that his wife Elizabeth, who is Reagan's Secretary of Transportation, would make an equally strong candidate. Dole buttons featuring pictures of both were seen on the convention floor. Their room number in Loews Anatole Hotel...