Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told a stunned nation that he was ordering a naval "quarantine" of Cuba because the U.S. had just acquired proof that there were Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles on the island. In addition, he said, sites were being built for intermediate-range...
Even as Washington worried about that Soviet brigade in Cuba, President Fidel Castro was luxuriating last week in an ego-boosting extravaganza. Basking in a tropical sun and bedecked with banners carrying anti-imperialist and anti-American slogans, Havana radiated a fiesta-like atmosphere as Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators and...
Two big issues are spoiling the usual autumn conviviality: energy and inflation. The members know that their constituents want them to act on these matters, but they are not quite sure how. Hardly had they returned to their offices when the President started pressuring them to pass his energy program...
Absence had not made the congressional heart any fonder of the Carter energy program. The more members scrutinized it, the less they seemed to like it. Flaws were beginning to show through the rhetoric. Especially vulnerable was the $88 billion synthetic fuel plan. The House had already passed a much...
But during the recess three management consulting firms hired by the Senate Budget Committee concluded that the President's goal of 2 million bbl. of synthetic fuels a day in ten years was unrealistic and potentially wasteful. The consultants advised that it would make more sense to try several...