Word: ramsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
...nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by James L. Buckley (R.-N.Y.). In fact, Moynihan will very likely be out one tenured chair in mid-September when the Empire State's liberal Democrats will split their primary votes among Rep. Bella S. Abzug, former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark and New York City Council president Paul O'Dwyer...
When Ronald Reagan promises that if elected, he would fire Henry Kissinger, he draws cheers from many audiences. (Shades of Richard Nixon in 1968 promising to fire Attorney General Ramsey Clark.) The attacks on Kissinger are not doing much good for Reagan, or Scoop Jackson either. Still, after suffering through one of his rougher weeks, the Secretary of State took the offensive against those presidential candidates who condemn U.S. foreign policy. Speaking to the Boston World Affairs Council,* he accused them of being vague and inconsistent...
Informal Polls. Moynihan's friends and critics alike suspect he wants to get into the Senate race. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug have a large organizational lead for the nomination, however, and former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, though not a candidate, has done well in the polls. Moynihan told TIME he had no intention of making speeches at the U.N. for the rest of his life, but he also insisted, "I am not running for the Senate and haven't the slightest intention of doing...
...Executive Branch can be re-written by the Executive Branch, by those who follow you. They will mean absolutely nothing in the face of a willful President or a willful Attorney General." Thus the committee will probably recommend that the standards be written into law. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in fact, urged that "specific statutes should authorize, prohibit or regulate every investigative and enforcement method. Government agents should not have to guess what is permitted." Both committee members and Justice Department officials favor requiring court approval of wiretaps in domestic-security cases; such approval is now a federal requirement...