Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff. He does not want the job, and the notion of a Haldemanesque executive officer through whom other aides report is anathema to the President. But since last spring, Jordan has with increasing frequency taken charge of important situations. Says an associate: "There was a vacuum. You would sit in a meeting to hash out a problem. Everyone would speak his piece and then go off and do what he intended to do in the first place. Now Hamilton makes assignments and we all recognize that he is the hub of the staff wheel...
...going to try to be a statue; I might even sit down, but I'm going to be there from approximately nine to five," the bearded Nelson said...
...existence, is interdependant; and man is only one simple humble part of all of it--not the center, not all powerful, but a part of it. I couldn't get it out of my mind that over the next hill was this huge power plant. There these people sit, living a beautiful but very difficult way of life, while 15 miles away the energy interests, some of the most opportunistic enterprises in the world, are exploiting Indians' lands, polluting their lands, yet the Indians share few of the rewards and are powerless to prevent such development...
Some went to "freedom schools," conducted voluntarily by striking teachers in private homes. Others marched outside the houses of school board members, chanting "We want school!" Toward the end, about 70 students staged an all-night sit-in at MacArthur High. But many high school students simply slept late, got bored, or found part-time jobs. Some went off to private schools...
George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO: "They say Carter is the first businessman ever to sit in the White House. But why did they have to send us a small businessman...