Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, it asks that Harvard prevent corporate America's ravenous appetite for power from swallowing the powerless...
Jaworski reigns in Houston as the apotheosis of Establishment power. In 1948, Jaworski helped defend Lyndon Johnson against charges of fraud in the wake of the 87-vote victory that first sent him to the Senate. In 1960, he defended his friend against suits that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and Senator. Johnson put Jaworski on five presidential commissions...
...equivocal circumstances the national will might be far better safeguarded if Congress reasserted its constitutional authority as the sole branch empowered to "declare war." If this could be worked out practically, an increasing number of political scientists and elected officials now argue, Congress might also find a way to prevent Presidents from waging undeclared wars...
Defense, however, can only prevent scoring and respond to pressure. Defense cannot score, and although Kidder might not play, the halfbacks--even without LaCivita--should be able to keep the pressure on Princeton...
...Government; an automatic right for the opposition party to respond to any TV speeches made by a President within ten months of a presidential election or within 90 days of congressional elections; quarterly prime-time debates between major party spokesmen. In theory, at least, such measures would prevent Presidents from hogging the screen. But enacting the reforms would be a complex and controversial business. Meanwhile, are Americans now as vulnerable to White House brainwashing as Presidential Television suggests? Perhaps not. Despite their heavy use of TV, Johnson and Nixon hardly proved that airwave blitzes alone can shape national opinion. However...