Word: hinchman
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Deaver may have participated in as many as 15 U.S.-Canadian discussions of acid rain before he left the White House last May, said James F. Hinchman, the GAO deputy general counsel, who testified last week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually...
...Hinchman also stated that Deaver may have violated Government ethics laws by "his very presence" at the meeting with Lewis. Deaver is barred from officially contacting anyone in the White House for a year after leaving office, and the GAO found that Lewis should have been considered a White House official. Deaver maintains that Lewis, though he is a White House appointee who keeps an office in the nearby Old Executive Office Building, is in fact a State Department employee...
Though it is now the centerpiece of the Festival of Arts, the pageant started almost as an afterthought. The festival itself was launched in 1932 to publicize the work of Depression-hit Laguna artists. A year later, Painter John Hinchman hit on the idea of staging tableaux vivants, similar to the scenes mounted on Sundays in some Victorian parlors. The "stage" was a roped-off section of a street. As Salome holding the severed head of John the Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after...