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...effort to muster widespread support for the campaign, the activists suggested that students going home for the recess boycott their parents' Thanksgiving dinner tables. Faced with a challenge to their liberal values and the hunger on their children's faces, the organizers say, parents will break open their checkbooks and forward contributions to embattled, integrated free schools...
Congressional v. presidential authority is also involved in a suit over a Nixon pocket veto of a medical education bill during a five-day recess in 1970. Senator Edward Kennedy, a co-sponsor of the bill, went to court contending that the pocket veto power was meant for use only when Congress was in adjournment. He recently won in the trial court, and the appeals are now under way. Further in the future, the court may also have to consider whether the President's national security power legally justified the office burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...during the August 1973 Congressional recess, Cohen is back on the road again, this time walking through Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook counties in northeastern Maine. He reaches Lubec, the easternmost town in the United States, by the end of the first week, and finds the inhabitants somewhat pessimistic about their future...
Following his election, Cohen was one of three freshman Congressmen who participated in a month-long Harvard Institute of Politics program. Now, during the August 1973 Congressional recess, he is back on the road for two weeks, this time walking 300 miles through Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook counties in northeastern Maine...
...faltering start after a seven-week recess, the resumed Watergate hearings presented no startling new evidence of outrageous conduct in the 1972 presidential campaign. But, through two witnesses whose personalities, perspectives and fortunes offered a fascinating contrast, they did provide an intriguing dialogue on political ethics...