Word: latta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, Robert Latta, a vacationer from Denver, followed the 33 musicians into the White House, wandered up to the second floor and then poked around for more than ten minutes before the Secret Service belatedly grabbed him near the Blue Room. "It was an adventure for me," says Latta. "I just wanted to see how far I could get." Latta's breezy breach of security mortified the White House. Says Speakes: "The Secret Service is taking a hard look at this matter...
When agents finally did discover Latta, they brought in dogs to search for possible explosives and interrogated the intruder outside. "They wanted to know everything about me," Latta recalls. "Did I have anything against Reagan? What are my politics? Had I ever been in a psychiatric institution? Had I ever been in jail...
Then he was turned over to Washington police, charged with unlawful entry and locked up. During the five days it took him to arrange $1,000 bail, a courtappointed psychiatrist interviewed him and learned that Latta had voluntarily spent some time in a mental hospital last year. In addition, the psychiatrist reported, Latta "hears voices saying, 'You blew...
...Congress began consideration of proposed amendments to the Constitution that would permit supposedly voluntary prayer in public schools, overturning Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that are bitterly resented by many religious groups and their political allies. The high court rulings, cried Ohio Republican Delbert Latta during an all-night House speech-making session, "favor atheism over Christianity...
Lingering discontent about the Latta budget means that Republicans still have a lot more work to do to make their spending plan stick. The House resolution now goes to a conference committee that will try to work out a compromise with a budget passed by the Senate last month that provides for $19 billion more in spending. Then comes the hardest part: the "reconciliation" process, in which various congressional committees must make their 1983 spending and tax legislation conform with the budget guidelines. In an election year, there will be a temptation to fund politically popular programs and vote against...