Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chicken casserole with broccoli and cheese, followed by a store-bought chocolate cake with 56 candles. Pat gave him a pair of cuff links -"All his cuff links were torn off in the campaign," she explained. There were ties, socks and handkerchiefs from Tricia, and from his staff a small bronze statue of an Irish setter in token of the dog they plan to buy him. The Nixon White House menagerie will also include Blanco, a dog left by the Johnsons because it does not like Texas, a Yorkshire terrier called Pasha, and Vicky, a French poodle...
...prompted President Truman to unify the services under a Secretary of Defense. Old Soldier Eisenhower stripped the individual service secretaries of their power to deploy troops. Later, the exigent Robert McNamara took command of all departmental decisions by unifying military-budgetary decisions through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, introduced his three service secretaries; all fit the pat tern of administrator now prescribed...
...when it interrogates him. In U.S. history, only eight Cabinet nominees have been turned down, and Senators have never rejected an incoming President's first choices. Still, Hickel can look forward to some heat. "It'll be good for him," said a member of Nixon's staff. "The trouble with Wally," said another Nixon man, "is that he's never thought about a thing but Alaska." If nothing more, the Senate's hearings should considerably expand Hickel's perspectives...
...settled is how this department will be constituted and operated. The black students want a black department to have the right "to hire the faculty to staff this department and to engage "consultants on black culture, art ideology and curriculum...
...pity that your staff did not see fit to check with the Department of Linguistics your front-page article (January 8) on Mr. Lakoff's new job insofar as the article touches on departmental courses and emphases...