Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appoint as many blacks and Hispanics to high positions...
...offered again, Connally accepted. Nixon cared relatively little for economics, and he was in awe of Connally's self-assurance, so he gave the Treasury Secretary a lot of leeway in which to operate. Connally's actions were gruff and abrasive, as if he were playing in a high-stakes poker game, and he often offended foreign finance ministers. But he was able to negotiate a much needed realignment of currencies, devaluing the dollar by 7.9% the year he took office. He also formulated and enforced
Peter Bourne, health policy adviser to the White House, had to quit his post after he had improperly prescribed a drug for a friend. At the time, sources charged that Bourne himself had used cocaine. He told a New York Times reporter that there was "a high incidence" of marijuana and occasional cocaine use among members of the White House staff...
...finally passed, the law compels the Attorney General to begin a preliminary investigation whenever he "receives specific information" that a high federal official (the President, Cabinet Secretaries, senior White House staffers, the director of the CIA" and others) "has committed a violation of any federal criminal...
Critics charge that the law practically invites opponents to smear high officials by making charges that, although false, cannot be disproved during a preliminary investigation. Defenders of the law argue that in some cases only exoneration by a special prosecutor can free a Government leader of the suspicion that allegations against him were covered up. But Justice officials last week were admitting that the very appointment of a special prosecutor would convince many Americans that Jordan had done something wrong...