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Originally, the Vice President was conceived as the second man most qualified to be President. John Adams, the first man to be elected to the office, filled that role. But he was also picked because he came from Massachusetts, while George Washington was a Virginian. Thus, even at the outset, the No. 2 man was selected at least partly to provide political balance for the No. 1. Washington did his best to get the job off to a good start by giving Adams many political responsibilities...
...think that women such as myself and all those you see here make the difference in an election." Last week, she was the guest of honor at a $25-a-plate dinner sponsored by Hot Line for Youth, Inc., a Baltimore group that counsels troubled teenagers. At the outset, she had trouble with her microphone. She asked the audience: "Are you sure that the p.r. man who works for my husband didn't set that up?" Once properly amplified, Bootsie declared: "We must seek the moral standards we want our children to follow." Her two children, Ellen and Gary...
...Supreme Court ruled that Agnew could be prosecuted despite his office, the trial could begin in late January. By ringingly asserting to the G.O.P. women last week that he would not resign if indicted, Agnew was going against the spirit of Nixon's own promise, made at the outset of the Watergate investigations, that he would demand the resignation of anyone indicted. Since he, like Nixon, is elected, Agnew could theoretically get away with it, although regardless of his present pledge not to quit, the pressure on him to do so would be overwhelming. If he were convicted and still...
Even until the end. Allende never swerved from his commitment to an orderly and democratic transition. The Right had begun to move against Popular Unity from the outset: businessmen sent badly needed investment capital abroad, distributers and the rightest press teamed up to exacerbate the notorious shortages, Patria y Libertad began to strike with bombings and assassinations. Although Allende encouraged the Left to organize outside the government, he never responded in kind to the Rightist attacks. He went so far as to bring the military into the government for stability as the Right's offensive peaked in late summer...
While the offense generally drew praise from Restic, the defense came under some pretty scathing (for Restic) criticism. The defensive ends and linebackers, positions the Crimson coach had cited as strengths at the outset of practice, were hardest...