Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration's energy and economic policies. That day, at a strategy session, Kennedy's top advisers made plans for a money-raising blitz that will qualify him for federal campaign matching funds within a week's time. This requires raising $5,000 in gifts of $250 or less in each of at least 20 states...
Secret Service agents go over Kennedy's schedule ahead of time and suggest ways to make his public appearances less dangerous. However, the candidate makes the final decisions. Says a Secret Service official: ''If it were left to us, we would put these guys behind bulletproof shields all the time. We are trying to get maximum security, and they are trying to get maximum exposure.'' George Wallace used to make speeches from behind such a shield; he was shot while walking through a parking...
...Kennedy, in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University, complained that the Carter Administration's proffered $7 million in aid was inadequate to prevent starvation in Cambodia. The White House, however, had already called in TV cameras for a statement that President Carter would deliver in person less than two hours after Kennedy spoke: the Administration had rounded up not $7 million but $69 million to avert famine in that Southeast...
...many people around campus, of course, knew that the policy committee existed, much less had been given a new lease on life. The Committee's mandate, save one portion, was very vague. The 1977 agreement assigned the group four basic functions...
...normal administrative way," in the case of high level policy issues, is usually the frequent meetings between Bok and Horner. Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe and nominal secretary to the Committee says, "There haven't been any issues that the Presidents couldn't solve." Horner is less modest about this. "If President Bok and I are doing our various administratvie jobs well," she says, "a sign of a successful agreement is that the Joint Policy Committee...