Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleading, "We need him as part of the team," Senator Paul Laxalt, the President's confidant, significantly did not. Moreover, a huge question had been raised as to whether Stockman can continue to be effective. Certainly, he has become an irresistible target for Democrats on Capitol Hill. Observed Leon Panetta, a key Democrat on the House Budget Committee: "He was knowledgeable. But now the first question will be: 'Is this just what you're saying, or do you really believe it?' " Insisted New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "It was not just an error of good...
...Leon Bromberg...
...told H.R. Haldeman, regarding prospective cabinet appointments, "No goddamn Harvard men, you understand? Under no condition!" But perhaps Nixon will let bygones be bygones and start addressing the boxes for Cambridge. Harvard could do its part by promising to clear some room for Nixon in Houghton Library--perhaps near Leon Trotsky's papers. But even if Nixon chooses to look elsewhere, Harvard could, by asking for the papers, display some of the qualities Nixon so demonstrably lacked: magnanimity, tolerance, and sense of humor. No, Nixon probably won't give his papers to Harvard, but wherever they go, they should...
Even before Reagan made his televised threat. Democrats were having second thoughts about trying to get by with unrealistic cuts that would later be reversed. Congressman Leon Panetta of California, a member of the Budget Committee, telephoned Perkins in Kentucky to warn that the Republicans, as they had with the bipartisan budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start...
...Leon J. Kamin '48, a former-instructor in Social Relations, was aquitted by Federal District Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 after a ten day trial. Aldrich's decision, which held an entire McCarthy investigation illegal, forced the Justice Department to drop a similar case against Wendall H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. McCarthy, calling for Aldrich's impeachment, said the ruling was "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous...