Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When McFarlane resigned toward the end of 1985, worn out by a turf war with Chief of Staff Donald Regan, the President named Poindexter to succeed him. It was widely believed Regan, who is thought to have been present at nearly every one of Poindexter's daily briefings of the President, considered Poindexter a man he could control. The new National Security Adviser did manage to resolve two long-standing policy disputes within the Administration: he mediated the decisions to abandon U.S. observance of the unratified SALT II treaty and to retaliate against terrorism by launching the 1986 air strike...
...operated far out of sight of much of the official Government. He claimed to have done much of the planning for the invasion of Grenada. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the United Nations, who attended the meeting at which that invasion was finally approved, says North was not present and his name never came up. Indeed, for all her deep involvement with Central American policy generally and the contras specifically, Kirkpatrick says she heard little about North and saw even less of him before leaving the Government...
...last day of his trial, the accused was ordered to be present. Looking drawn and tired, he stood expressionless last week while Presiding Judge Andre Cerdini read the verdict that had been reached after more than six hours of deliberation by nine jurors and three judges. The former SS officer was found guilty on all 341 counts of crimes against humanity. His sentence, the maximum, was life imprisonment...
...Jefferson hated political speeches. He also thought it was unwise to hang around the swamps of Washington in the summer. Despite criticism, the Virginian paid long visits to Monticello, where both air and mind were clearer. Yet there is a resonance now between Jefferson's warnings and Reagan's present-day fears of a Government so big and costly that it ultimately breaks America's spirit...
...presidential elections, in addition totempting Thornburgh to run himself, present aperfect point of focus for the former governor'simmediate mission of inspiring the K-School, andHarvard in general, to take an interest inelectoral politics. "We must encourage students toget involved in the campaigns," he says...