Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simultaneously with its impeachment inquiry. While no timetable was set, the Democratic majority wants to cushion the impact of possible impeachment by keeping the White House in Republican hands and assuring the continuation of Nixon's general foreign and domestic policies. Ford's elevation also would avert a bitter partisan fight over succession; Speaker Albert has no longing for the presidency. The Senate Rules Committee had also decided to move promptly on Ford, awaiting only a full background check by 70 FBI agents before setting hearings...
Several professors refused to comment because of related upcoming testimony before Congressional committees. Paul M. Bator, associate dean of the Law School, said he was going before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. "I feel it would be improper for me to be partisan on any of these issues," he said...
...tough talk, Jackson is as skilled at compromising an issue as at dramatizing it. Partisan of big defense that he is, he has worked behind the scenes to scale down Pentagon budget requests so that they would be acceptable to the Senate. Though he is adamant about maintaining U.S. forces in Europe, he joined Senator Sam Nunn in introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill that would require European nations to share the cost of the troop commitment; the amendment was passed. He and his staff are huddling with both the White House and Soviet diplomats...
...constitutional" mechanism of the special prosecutor. However balanced investigation by Archibald Cox '34 may have been, the idea of a Kennedy Democrat who filled his top four investigative posts with fellow Kennedy Democrats could not have been pleasing to the administration. Nixon decided over the weekend that a bi-partisan House inquiry and a friendlier judicial arrangement would be preferable to Archibald Cox and his staff of 80 crack lawyers examining all the president's activities and papers. If Congress tries to appoint a new special prosecutor, the president and the Republicans will be in a position to secure guarantees...
...years and one child; in Santa Monica. In addition to a cool $1.5 million, Elvis also gave Priscilla a 5% interest in his music companies and half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. -Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito Mussolini in April 1945 as the Fascist dictator attempted to escape into Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci along a country road in northern Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome...