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Virtually every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan has conspired, if a bit reluctantly, to validate the legislative veto. From its first use, in a Government reorganization bill signed 51 years ago this week, it has been a bargaining chip: in exchange for a small concession of power, a President gets the legislation he wants...
Speaker Tip O'Neill has called President Reagan "Herbert Hoover with a smile," and Reagan has branded Challenger Fritz Mondale "Vice President Malaise." But those were gentle epithets delivered with a velvet glove and a twinkling eye. Since we throw so many stones into television's glass house (Reagan dubbed ABC's Sam Donaldson "the Ayatullah of the White House press corps"), it should be mentioned that most political analysts believe the electronic medium has brought a higher level of behavior among the contenders for the White House. Lamentably, the entertainment level has declined...
...precisely because of its revolutionary policies (favoring agrarian reform, secular education collective bargaining and recovery of natural resources)--all of them opposed by the successive government in Washington, from Taft to Hoover--Mexico became a modern, contradictory self-knowing and self-questioning nation... A great statesman is a pragmatic idealist Franklin D. Roosevelt had the political imagination and the diplomatic will to respect Mexico when President Lazaro Cardenas, (in the culminating act of the Mexican Revolution,) expropriated the nation's oil resources...
...intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population was no threat; there was a complete absence of factual support for the claims of "fifth column" activity, sabotage, and signalling to Japanese ships. Instead, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told President Roosevelt that "the necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data." McCloy had no excuses because his were informed decisions. The facts were there, just as they exist now and cannot be ignored by The Crimson...
...wanted our own people," acknowledged White House Counsellor Ed Meese. The nominees, like the commissioners they would replace, are Democrats: Morris B. Abram, former president of Brandeis University and onetime chairman of the United Negro College Fund; John H. Bunzel, senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution; and Robert A. Destro, assistant law professor at Catholic University of America. Linda Chavez, assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers, was named staff director...