Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting collapsed. Outside the White House, the Mexicans told their U.S. escorts they had been treated extremely rudely. "For half an hour, he gave us a pompous lecture," one of them said. The talks lay dead for eight months while Schlesinger spent 45 hours a week on Capitol Hill, lobbying to get his riddled energy bill through the Congress...
...Secretary paced the room and talked about his work. "This is the toughest job I've ever had, a no-win job," he said. Schlesinger declared that no area of Government involved such a multitude of self-centered interests: "Every Congressman on the Hill has a gasoline station on some corner that he wants taken care of." Telling Americans to cut down on energy, he shrugged, is not easy. "I'm trying to sell an unpleasant future by offering pain today...
Jimmy Carter called a secret meeting to try to get the State Department to quiet internal dissent about foreign policy. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown worried out loud on the Hill that the U.S. had no way to counter such surrogate Soviet forces as the Cubans in Africa. Chagrin hit the State Department when Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, after his exuberant sojourn in the U.S., stopped in Tokyo on his way home and told the Japanese that America has shown indecision and "lacks direction" in handling the Iran crisis. Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger declared that...
...Moonies were out in force on Capitol Hill last week. Outside the Russell Building the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's disciples had a band oompahing in protest; inside, they packed the gallery, unleashing standing ovations, boos and shouts of "Liar!" as they thought the testimony warranted. The occasion was an unofficial hearing on "cults," presided over by Republican Senator Robert Dole...
...least one stockholder has already filed suits against the McGraw-Hill management and others are expected to follow, claiming that they were financially damaged by the turndown of the $40 bid. Said Abraham Pomerantz, a New York lawyer who makes a specialty of class action suits: "There are squeals all over America from frustrated shareholders of McGraw-Hill. My telephone has been ringing all morning with calls from people who want to join the [lawsuit] parade...