Word: nixon
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...impeach and the Senate the power to try these cases. So much for the theory. In practice, Congress has never liked all the folderol, hoping the accused would be dealt with in some other way. Up to this year, the House has impeached only 13 men, not including Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 before his impeachment was acted on by the full House. Not since 1936, when the Senate tried and removed U.S. Judge Halsted Ritter of Florida for bringing his court into "scandal and disrepute," has a public official gone through the entire process...
Branscomb directed the National Bureau of Standards in the Nixon Administration. He has served as chairman of the National Science Board, and as a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the President's National Productivity Advisory Committee...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences appointed an executive committee--which included Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard E. Neudstadt; President Derek C. Bok, then dean of the Law School; and Lamont University Professor John T. Dunlop, Nixon's labor secretary--to develop an independent, degree-granting program in public policy...
...heavily regulated thrift industry, it helps for executives to know their way around Washington. On that score, Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan should be a winner. Its new owner is H.F. Holdings, an investment firm founded by William Simon, 58, who was Treasury Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Simon has named another old Washington hand, Preston Martin, as chairman of H.F. Holdings. Martin, 62, served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from March 1982 until March of this year...
Washington political satirists, the Capitol Steps, will be on tap: "Hark, when Gerald Ford was king,/ We were bored with everything./ Unemployment 6%./ What a boring President./ Nothing major needed fixin'/ So he pardoned Richard Nixon." House Speaker Tip O'Neill is coming from the capital. Mercifully, he promises not to sing. Ford will wander in with his old football helmet under his arm, the one Lyndon Johnson claimed Ford never wore...