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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, and I can be judged on that." He explained that it was important to him personally that he put some distance between himself and his brothers. "I'm proud of them, obviously," he said, "but I don't want nostalgia to be a part of this thing. Now the criticism will be aimed at me." He seemed pleased at that, sure of his own thought. Said he: "I'm the person who will be judged, not them...
While Carter's show of White House muscle was impressive, some problems persist. The President is having difficulty filling top jobs in his Administration, in part because potential nominees are reluctant to commit themselves to a boss who may have only a bit more than a year in power. According to Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew...
...shed fascinating light on his opinions of Nixon and the game of politics. Eisenhower pointedly omitted Nixon's name when discussing those he considered good future Republican presidential material. And in a late 1954 conversation with U.P.I. White House Correspondent Merriman Smith, Ike complained that the worst part of his job was ''accommodating yourself to values and considerations that fundamentally you can't fully accept...
...part of his strategy, Byrd is demanding that "certain provisions" be included in the Senate resolution approving the treaty. Unlike the "killer" amendments that are being proposed by SALT's critics, Byrd's measures would require no new bargaining with Moscow. But they could eliminate some ambiguities in the treaty that have been troubling a number of Senators. Among other things, Byrd wants the ratifying resolution to state explicitly that Senate approval would be required for any extension, beyond its scheduled expiration at the end of 1981, of the protocol that is to limit such key weapons...
...Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas and to bolster Arab claims to territory that has long since become part of Israel...