Word: nunn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nunn, who believes that the tests of private relations and public life cannot be different simply because it is impossible to split a whole person in two, it was a painful admission. A few days before Nunn would lead the charge against John Tower on the Senate floor, the 50-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee sat in his office under the influence of two diet Cokes and finally confessed that he once stole some eggs from a neighbor who kept chickens...
That was around 40 years ago in Perry, Ga., the small town about a hundred miles south of Atlanta where Nunn grew up at a time when the movies cut away to pounding waves whenever a couple embraced. A lot has changed in Perry, but along Sam Nunn Boulevard, where just about every fast-food chain known to man has an outlet, there is still a statue of a Confederate soldier pointing North, and farther along a billboard that says COME FOLLOW ME -- JESUS CHRIST. (Back when Nunn was in school, his class would regularly break for a period...
...Yeah, I took the eggs," said Nunn last week. "It was a scheme to make some extra cash" -- a plan too clever by half. Even then, Nunn prepared his moves carefully, cautiously. A cooling-off period was decreed. The eggs were stashed in the attic of Sam's home. "But I never realized they'd rot," said Nunn. "It was theft without profit...
...joint statement issued by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the Senate Armed Services committee chairman, and Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the committee's ranking Republican, the senators said Cheney "is well known and highly respected by the members of the Senate. We have worked with him on many issues involving national defense and intelligence matters...
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) charged that Armed Services Committee Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) has begun an unnecessary investigation of Tower. Nunn responded to Dole's complaints by explaining there were "three or four new allegations" about Tower and that Nunn had consulted with other Republicans before dispatching investigators...