Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been hastily summoned from a vacation in The Netherlands, strode into the room to administer the oath of office. Although his role was traditional, Burger's presence had special meaning. As Chief Justice, he was symbolic of the law and of the constitutional processes that, set in motion by the excesses of the President and the men around him, had inevitably led to the toppling of Richard Nixon. As Burger entered, the Vice President and Mrs. Ford were announced, and walked, amid thunderous applause, into the same stately chandeliered room Richard Nixon and his family had left a short while...
...last-ditch alternative to impeachment, some Republican Representatives, with concurrence of Gerald Ford, proposed that the House censure the President. In lieu of impeachment, the motion would merely chastise Nixon for "moral insensitivity, negligence and maladministration"-a featherweight rap on the knuckles. The notion was so strongly opposed by the Democratic leadership that it was given little chance of even reaching the floor...
...Donald Segretti, Danielson asked: "Do you suppose that he... called the President and said, 'Mr. President, I am now about to order 400 pizzas for Mr. Muskie's fund-raiser'? That is unrealistic." It is enough, Danielson contended, to show that an act was set in motion by general presidential direction or policy...
...danger of the heated-up situation on Cyprus was that it could involve the superpowers more directly, something that both Washington and Moscow have so far avoided. Soviet U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik at one point last week brusquely vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the crisis. The motion called for beefing up the Cyprus peace-keeping force to 5,000 men and allowing U.N. troops to begin mapping cease-fire lines and laying out buffer zones between Greeks and Turks. Malik hinted that the Soviets are increasingly unhappy with the exclusive Western involvement in solving the Cyprus crisis...
...Sirica for use by Special Prosecutor Jaworski in the impending Watergate cover-up trial. Actually, McClory conceded that he had little expectation of a favorable response from Nixon. McClory's tactic was aimed at strengthening a contempt of Congress article against the President he planned to introduce. The motion was defeated 27 to 11 in the first rough test of the committee's voting lineup...