Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houston in large numbers. Cynthia Baker, Daughter of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, was a delegate at large; Cecilia Apodaca, wife of the Governor, was a delegate from New Mexico; the West Vir ginia delegation included Sharon Rockefeller, the Governor's wife. At Houston, Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, declared herself "a newly proclaimed feminist?I used to think it was a bad notion...
...Jean King, chairwoman of Michigan's delegation: "When we got to the hotel the bellhop said, 'Hello, women.' I said, 'You have just doubled your...
...passed history unexpectedly." Before anyone grows excessively mystical about television, however, it is probably well to remember that a few minutes after the President of Egypt set foot in the ancient enemy's land for the first time, ABC-TV cut back to the Ohio State-University of Michigan football game. TV, like history, has its priorities...
Faced with political realities, Carter backed away from a plan to have independent citizen panels nominate federal trial judges and prosecutors. One result in New Jersey and Michigan: two superb Republican U.S. attorneys who refused to resign were unceremoniously forced out of office. The choice of U.S. attorneys and district judges has long been controlled by U.S. Senators and state politics. But U.S. circuit courts usually cover several states, and appointments to them have less often been the absolute preserve of a Senator or Representative. So when Carter set up 13 panels around the country to pick appellate judges...
...Senator James Sasser's 1976 campaign (as had Merritt's two minor children); Thomas Tang of Arizona has close ties to Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini. Yet even Republicans acknowledge that the nominees have good credentials, and the four trial court judges being moved up-Damon Keith of Michigan, Leon Higgenbotham of Pennsylvania, Hugh Henry Bownes of New Hampshire and Alvin Rubin of Louisiana -are men of qualily...