Word: return
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was similar tension in the offices of the Cabinet members. Pat Harris' staff had some anxious moments when she was summoned to the Oval Office. Asked Carter: "Was 10 a.m. convenient?" Said Harris: "Even if it weren't, Mr. President, I would be there." On her return to HUD, she told her staff: "There is no reason for any of you to be concerned as a result of what happened." Indeed not; she had just been promoted...
...University of Maryland Law School. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, where he prosecuted fraud and other cases for two years, before going into private practice. Civiletti emphasized he has no further governmental ambitions. When he completes his service as Attorney General, he intends to return to his law practice in Baltimore...
...touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named to a higher post: Secretary of Energy, succeeding James Schlesinger...
...than one half as much for gasoline and fuel oil as Europeans) and an emphasis on expanding nuclear energy. Commented Switzerland's Journal de Geneve: "The President feared, not without reason, that decontrol would push U.S. inflation to an intolerable level. But that also would have been a return to truth in pricing, which is the basis of American capitalism...
...familiar ploy, perhaps, but the culprit was none other than Honest Abe Lincoln, who served one term in the House from 1847 to 1849. And he got away with it. The House Committee on Mileage specified that Congressmen could return home by "the most usual route," thus allowing Lincoln to claim he took the long way home...