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Finally, the President sent a letter to Senator Abraham Ribicoff: chairman of the Senate committee that confirmed the budget director, recommending an unlimited extension of the Dec. 31 deadline. The deadline. Carter noted, helped to foster "a substantial artificial lowering of the stock price." Ribicoff agreed to have his committee consider the idea...
...wants them to hold a briefing for reporters on the decision to cancel two breeder-reactor projects that Carter had mentioned to Senators Glenn, Ribicoff and Percy. "It might reassure [Japanese Premier Takeo] Fukuda and [West German Chancellor Helmut] Schmidt to understand that we are making distinctions between our own situation and theirs," Carter says...
...Well," Jordan says as he excuses himself from the office, "I'm glad my name ain't on that memo." · It is a short time later. The President is alone in the Cabinet Room with three Senators, Democrats John Glenn and Abraham Ribicoff and Republican Charles Percy. They have presented him a report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on the problem of nuclear proliferation. "I know you're working right in the middle of this now," Glenn tells the President, "and I think it's very important." Carter notes that...
...with Carter's aims of drafting a long-range tax reform and balancing the budget by 1980, the Democrats closed ranks. On the Senate floor, a few Democrats are likely to join all 38 Republicans in voting against the rebate, but it probably will still pass. Said Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, voicing the majority mood: "I'm skeptical. But this is a new Administration and they ought to be given a chance...
...Finance Committee, a group studded with stars like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.) and chaired by Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), then voted unanimously to send Champion's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation to confirm...