Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large measure, Burger owed his nomination as much to Abe Fortas as to Richard Nixon, and the President said as much in an extraordinary 45-minute session with newsmen the day after the appointment. Speaking from notes he had written on his celebrated yellow legal pad, the President told not only why he had chosen Burger but why he had not chosen several others who had been prominently mentioned for the job. Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about...
Nixon insisted that the timing of the appointment had nothing to do with Fortas. He wanted his nominee to have ample opportunity to confer with Warren, but he did not want the Senate hearings to begin until the court had ended its current session. Some time in May was thus indicated for the announcement. Still, the effect of the nomination last week, intended or not, was to draw attention from the Fortas affair and focus interest on the court's future rather than its troubled present...
More than 35 students tried yesterday morning to enter the first session of the Freund Committee's closed hearings. None of the three teaching fellows scheduled to come before the committee appeared at the hearing...
...Henry Cabot Lodge could make the optimistic announcement that, despite initial criticism, the other side gave "every indication" of willingness to bargain on Washington's proposals. In a still more heartening move, North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to meet secretly with the U.S. prior to this week's session. At the very least, when faced off against the Hanoi-National Liberation Front's ten-point plan presented the week before, Nixon's proposals define a workable middle ground and provide both sides with their first solid basis for negotiations...
...just one Balumbo session...