Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Education, moreover, is a political payoff from President Carter to the National Education Association (NEA), a group mostly concerned with primary and secondary education. It is no secret that Carter traded his influence for the NEA's first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate. For a man who came to Washington promising to trim down the federal bureaucracy, Carter hasn't done a very good job. We can only hope that the new department does not become a mouthpiece for the interest groups that rallied for its establishment--and that issues of post-secondary education are not buried...
...Secret Service agents displayed their traditional cool in a potentially explosive situation. They let the two RCP protesters harangue the man who served as Secretary of the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam war. At the same time, the agents inconspicuously slid into position in case one of the verbal assailants pulled a gun. A moment before, Brown had been extolling the virtues of arms control...
...uniform has been added. The blue-suited state police file through the crowd in a long line, creating a momentary wound that heals as quickly as they pass on. The police presence, lessened during the late morning, reappears in force. The Secret Service sets up new barricades, mounted police begin to circle the Common, and the state forces line the sidewalks blue shoulder to blue shoulder in a hopeless effort to keep the paths open...
...Secret Service receives a bomb report, and four agents with a German Shepherd rush to the far corner of the Common in a Harley-Davidson golf cart. The dog decides that the bomb is buried underneath the stop light at the corner of Beacon Street and whines until his masters, relieved at the false alarm, lift him back aboard the cart...
...newstand, they are hawking papal t-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, ribbons, and anything else they can find. It is about 1:45 p.m., and the line-up begins. Cameramen use their tripods and lenses, some big enough to polevault with, to clear away the opposition. But the Secret Service is checking all bags. We descend two very gray, concrete flights of steps and peek out into the mist. God is spitting on Logan airport as we find our places and, like everybody else, go running for the front row. They're not checking boarding passes...