Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself during the campaign as "the first farmer to run for President since Thomas Jefferson," tends toward a Jeffersonian attitude where the trappings of public office are concerned. As Georgia's chief executive, he sometimes surprised visitors to the Governor's mansion by appearing barefoot and in Levi's, even as Jefferson used to greet visitors to the White House in an old robe and slippers. Carter is discovering, however, that it is not quite so easy to resist the perquisites of the modern presidency...
...says: "I think there will be a considerable upheaval in the Cabinet, a lot of changes within the White House and an infusion of fresh blood throughout the Administration." There is speculation that Treasury Secretary William Simon, Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, Transportation Secretary William Coleman and Attorney General Edward Levi will leave early in a new Ford Administration -or perhaps before it even begins. Because Ford tends to promote from within, possible candidates for Cabinet posts include James Baker, 46, the unflappable Houston lawyer who smoothly ran Ford's election campaign, and Richard Cheney, 35, the diligent White House...
...White House Counsel John Dean, or only at the request of Republicans on the Banking Committee, as Ford claimed in the debate. Ford declined to urge that Nixon tapes of the period be examined. He was misleading in claiming that both the Watergate special prosecutor and Attorney General Edward Levi had investigated the topic and cleared him; they had merely refused to open full investigations into it. As the Los Angeles Times Jack Nelson pointed out, a clearer explanation could reasonably be asked of Ford. Carter scored by declining-for the first time in any of the debates-to comment...
...regular stipends of about $2,000 a month to a number of friendly Congressmen, including Ford during the 1960s when he was House minority leader. The witness said that he paid the money to an intermediary, who turned it over to legislators; the intermediary denies it. Attorney General Edward Levi told TIME: "The department has found no substantiation for the charges ... Ruff is aware of them." An IRS report on the investigation was sent to Justice Department officials just as Ford became Vice President in 1973, but they discounted it because of the low credibility of the informer. Ruff began...
Hoffman is at his best here as the naive, overwhelmed Tom Levi, whose purpose in life is both limited and noble, who becomes entangled in events far beyond his wildest imaginings, and who, in the final analysis, demonstrates a resiliency and inner strength which one gathers his father, for all his brilliance, lacked. The metaphor of the marathon runner, ever striving for greater fortitude, is indeed apt, and Hoffman has found a role which, with its moments of humor and of pathos, affords him an opportunity to turn in a performance strikingly reminiscent, in its portrayal of a character confused...