Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, are presidential problems. The men and women working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are only as good as their boss allows them to be. Yet there are levels of competence and honor that each person controls. Watergate cried out for one bright young man to remember his Boy Scout oath and walk out of the White House. None did. The Carter crew have better hearts and souls. But if there is one duty of a staffer, it is to spot trouble far off and, if necessary, make unpleasant noises to convince the President of the danger. None...
...defied Hitler in the last free speech given in Germany's parliament; while vacationing in Eutin, West Germany. In 1933, when Hitler made his first address to the legislature, Brecht, who represented the largest state, made the reply. Brecht reminded the newly appointed Chancellor of Hitler's oath to abide by the constitution and the law of the land. Hitler stalked out of the meeting and four days later dismissed Brecht. Emigrating to America, Brecht joined the "university in exile," a haven for refugee professors at New York's New School for Social Research where he taught...
Comptroller Heimann concluded that "there is some documentary and circumstantial evidence suggesting the possibility that a 20% compensating balance from NBG was a condition of the loan to Mr. Lance from MHT [Manufacturers Hanover Trust]." But he also found that all the officials involved, including Lance, had denied under oath that any such deal had been struck. On balance, said the report, "there appears to be no violation of any applicable laws or regulations...
...answer is that abortion is morally wrong-even, some say, a blithely conducted form of infanticide. There are painfully compelling reasons to oppose abortion; philosophers and theologians have done so for many centuries. The Hippocratic Oath includes a stricture against aiding an abortion. (Many medical schools now use a rephrased version of the oath to circumvent the abortion issue.) The procedure involves the destruction of a form of human life-life in utero, but life nonetheless. By the sixth week, almost all of the human organs are in place; by the eighth, brain-wave activity can be detected. The right...
...pictures on the oval walls are from Ford's time, most of the furniture too. Carter did resurrect Kennedy's desk, but its top is thinly populated. The Bible on which Carter placed his hand when he took the oath rests on one corner. Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign stands beside a kicking glass donkey that was a present from Georgia Democrats. Near by is Admiral Rickover's memento: "Oh, God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small." They are stage props. The man lives elsewhere, perhaps down...