Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning April 15, 1973, Nixon kept in almost daily touch with Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, as the President cooperated fully in the Watergate investigation. St. Clair admitted that the President sometimes got confidential information from Petersen about the progress of the Justice Department's probe and passed it along to his suspect subordinates. This was not done to protect them, St. Clair argued, but to let them know that others were talking to the grand jury and so they must tell the truth. It was this kind of action by the President, sweepingly claimed...
...last week. Hoping to catch up with double-digit inflation, a record number of workers were walking picket fines. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service reported that more than 600 work stoppages -the most since the agency began keeping records 15 years ago-involving 230,000 workers were in progress...
Summer School Film Series screens "When This You See, Remember Me"--life and work of Gertrude Stein, and "Works in Progress"--Ralph Ellison, renowned author of "Invisible Man," at work. Sunday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. Admission free. Science Center...
Privately Burger insists that the court has ended a long period of transition from the Warren era. "We're moving straight down the road, holding to our course," he has said. "Just because we refuse to extend a rule further, some people say we're backing away from progress made by the Warren Court. That is simply not true. In some cases, the Warren Court went too far. Now we're coming out of that phase...
...payment to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators. St. Clair argues that the transcript of the meeting that Nixon held with White House Counsel John Dean on March 21, 1973, "clearly demonstrates that the President recognizes that any blackmail and cover-up activities then in progress could not continue...