Word: reconfirmations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would solve the war by turning it over to the generals. Law and order would be maintained by eradicating an "unexplainable compassion for the criminal evidenced by our executive and judicial officers and officials." He would seek an amendment to the Constitution that would require the Senate to reconfirm "at reasonable intervals" members of the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts...
Although the old man still has a lot of strength in him, the end of the Adenauer era is indeed in sight. No more eloquent evidence was needed than the voting list when it came time to reconfirm der Alte in his office as C.D.U. party chairman. For the first time in anyone's memory, Adenauer did not win the party's overwhelming consent; in fact, 15% of the delegates abstained or voted against...