Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall followed the procedure, but did not obtain the Commission's written approval. After the Commission suggested changes in the window design, he ordered the windows from DeVac Co. in Minneapolis, Minn...
...sponsoring legislation to create an independent prosecutor. At hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is looking into the new legislation, Cox testified that he also thought the Congress should create an independent prosecutor. Cox told the Senators of the frustrations and delays he encountered in trying to obtain evidence from the White House...
Nations which do not know how to get to the roots must settle for the branches. Thus, in nations that our textbooks call totalitarian, strict controls obtain concerning press and TV, intellectual discussion and public debate. These societies are like bad gardeners who spend whole days out in the hot sun pruning bushes, doing their best to cut down hopeless growths of undesired ideologies, because they do not yet have skillful means for poisoning the soil...
PRESIDENT NIXON should not be allowed to appoint his own special prosecutor. The dismissal of Archibald Cox '34 and Nixon's statement that he would not let a new prosecutor use the courts to obtain presidential papers relevant to the investigation demonstrate that a Nixon-appointed prosecutor would not have the independence necessary for a complete probe into executive misconduct--especially presidential wrong-doing...
...announcement had contained one order aimed directly at Cox. "Though I have not wished to intrude upon the independence of the special prosecutor," Nixon said, "I have felt it necessary to direct him, as an employee of the Executive Branch, to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain tapes, notes, or memoranda of presidential conversations...