Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end both sides were still hoping to get a measure enacted. Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "This bill isn't dead yet. I hope the President will rethink his position and come down on the side of the American people." But the White House was counting on Congress to resubmit a bill without the plant-closing measure, and there was no sign of a quick resolution to the conflict. Said Senator John Danforth, a Missouri Republican: "I believe that this bill is dead...
During last year's battle over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, his opponents shuddered every time they looked ahead to the cases he might decide. But what really unnerved them was looking back at earlier court rulings that he might press to overturn. When Judge Anthony Kennedy was confirmed for the seat that Bork had sought, those fears subsided a bit. "Conservative but cautious" was the reading on Kennedy, not the man to go ripping up long lines of settled doctrine...
...been 20 years since he died, and still it is hard to take the measure of the man. Robert Kennedy was mostly a brother in his lifetime: a campaign manager, an Attorney General and then the younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached...
...sense that something is missing in the year of Bush and Dukakis. A week ago, about 800 people -- led by such old colleagues as Paul Schrade, Arthur Schlesinger, Cesar Chavez and Frank Mankiewicz -- gathered in Los Angeles to reflect on Kennedy's legacy. Said Jack Newfield, author of Robert Kennedy: A Memoir: "If you took the best half of Jackson and the best half of Dukakis, you would have half of Robert Kennedy...
Group Publishers: S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...