Word: lers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to distance himself from Lance. Aides insist this is not the case. Says one: "He is just trying to show that he has no intention of interfering in the investigation." Presidential aides also say that Carter and Lance have not yet gotten together to discuss the comptrol ler's probe, though Carter was briefed on it last week by Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal...
These and other problems are scheduled for public airing on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Washington Post story. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Com mittee, has announced that he will call Comptroller Smith to testify about what Proxmire called the comptrol ler's "failure to do a vigorous enough job on bank regulation." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, will hold hearings this week on the adequacy of federal examinations of banks. He plans to call representatives of the comptroller's office, Citibank...
...anyone who wanted to do harm to the President could get much more valuable information about his schedule simply by reading a local newspaper. Besides, in a real emergency, the agents guarding Ford talk back and forth on a special channel that they feel sure is secure against eavesdroppers. ler. In the latest California poll, taken in August among Republicans, Ford leads Reagan, 54% to 45%, but Pollster Mervin Field regards Ford's lead as uncomfortably thin...
Flowers in turn was an important influence on the Republicans in the group. At a Sunday meeting, he told the undecided seven, "This is something we just cannot walk away from. It hap pened, and now we've got to deal with it." Recalled Caldwell But ler later: "I knew at that second he was right." Butler, whose Virginia district is heavily pro-Nixon, made his decision soon after a visit...
...Barbary wars as a constitutional defense for his undeclared war against Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic just before World War II. It has been argued that Roosevelt's early brand of brinkmanship was farsighted brilliance-because it helped prepare the U.S. for a necessary war with Hit ler. None of F.D.R.'s successors, how ever, have been willing to give up the enormous power he acquired as the only President to preside over a global...