Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip Buchen, that the grand jury was virtually certain to indict Nixon and the list of charges could be lengthy and varied. The White House believed that the indictments would be handed down as soon as the second week of September?this week?although Jaworski in fact did not intend to obtain them until after the Watergate cover-up jury was sequestered in October. Still, it was clear that Nixon could be spared only by one act by one man: a pardon from Gerald Ford...
...paying off. He is now confidently predicting the institute will begin operations along the lines he proposed within a year. He says he doesn't know if the other antagonists are ready to dispense with their disputes, but he indicates it doesn't really matter much. "I don't intend to engage in any crippling disagreements," he says...
...Like President Truman and President Lincoln before him, I found on my desk, where the buck stops, the urgent problem of how to bind up the nation's wounds. And I intend to do that...
...clean and to protect the public from noxious fumes. The trouble was that the act's provisions, if strictly enforced, could also end construction of new factories, power plants and smelters that might belch those fumes in areas that now have clean air. Did the lawmakers intend such a curb on economic growth in undeveloped regions? The issue went to the federal courts in 1972, and the basic ruling-one that was upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court-was that there could be no "significant deterioration in existing air quality in any part of any state...
Therefore I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech. Just a little straight talk among friends. And I intend it to be the first of many...