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Word: notes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter wrote a personal note to each member of Congress, appealing for support of his veto of the bill, and aides made phone calls up to the time of the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veto of Public Works Bill Survives House Challenge | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

Still, Malley conceded that even he had not been kept fully informed by agents investigating the assassination. Not until 1977, for instance, did he learn that the Dallas FBI office had received a note from Oswald one week before the assassination, threatening to blow up a federal building unless agents stopped trying to interview his wife Marina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dousing a Popular Theory | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

PLEASE SEE SPENCER LEE FROM ALBANY WHEN HE REQUESTS AN APPOINTMENT. This terse handwritten note from Jimmy Carter to Attorney General Griffin Bell lay forgotten for 19 months in a filing cabinet at the Justice Department. Last week it emerged at the center of a mystery that threatened to embarrass Carter and some of his closest associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Vesco's Latest Caper | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...week later Hardin decided that he should tell Carter about the offer. During a five-minute meeting, Carter urged Hardin to report any future contacts with Vesco's emissaries to the Justice Department and scrawled a message to Attorney General Bell?the same note that surfaced last week. Then, so the White House says, the President pushed the matter from his mind. What happened to the note next is unclear. Bell says he never received it. Neither Lee nor any other Vesco representative ever called on Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Vesco's Latest Caper | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...enforcement agencies about his talk with Lee. On further checking, White House aides said they found that the only person Hardin had reported the offer to was the President. A search of Justice Department files then turned up the message from Carter to Bell. If nothing else, the lost note and the persistent friends of Mr. Vesco were causing the kind of contretemps the White House could do without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Vesco's Latest Caper | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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