Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like millions of other Americans, Richard Nixon had hoped to get at least a brief taste of vacationing during the waning days of August-a little golf, a little swimming-but there was no sign of respite for the embattled President. First, Federal Judge John J. Sirica ordered that Nixon must surrender to him the secret White House tapes of private meetings about the Watergate scandal. The historic decision-the first in which a judge has ever ordered a President to give up documentary evidence that he was unwilling to produce-brought presidential lawyers rushing to the Western White House...
...Montgomery) had been convicted of mail fraud and distribution of false financial statements in 1968 but had received a presidential pardon from Nixon in 1972. White House spokes men argued convincingly that the three men have had no connection with the firm for five years and that all Presidents sign long lists of pardons recommended by the Attorney General...
...much as Richard Nixon. Presidents have angrily insisted that the essence of the White House travels with them and that they get more work done when they are beyond the physical White House. It may be true that they can answer all the mail and sign bills better once they are clear of Pennsylvania Avenue. But important matters cannot be resolved well by an itinerant President. Information is limited, the passion of arguments is lost when they are put down on paper, and the mood and feel of a crisis disappears in the tranquil havens of sun and water...
...even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment to the church and have shown some sign of penitence." Pastors must avoid "public scandal," however, and can do so by explaining the "meaning of Christian funerals, in which may be seen a recourse to the infinite mercy of God." Thus, while irregularly remarried Catholics cannot join their fellows for Communion while they live, they can at least join...
...choice seemed a somewhat, though not totally, reassuring sign that a crippling strike or an inflationary wage settlement will be avoided. The most obvious reason for the selection was simply that Chrysler's turn had come. General Motors was the target the last time around in 1970; Ford had been up the time before, in 1967. Chrysler also would be more financially vulnerable than either GM or Ford to a strike that left its rivals free to go on making cars...