Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Immediately-so that we can start ma-ing plans. I would like Congress to direct the President to reorganize the Executive Branch, subject to subsequent veto of the Congress on individual proposals. This would give tremendous substance to the whole thrust-you could go into a department and say, "This is what we want to do now. The law says it must be done, and I'm the President and I'm carrying out Congress's directives and my own commitment to the American people...
...occasion Watson had hand-carried to Plains a black-bound memorandum that dealt with the candidate's favorite subject: Government reorganization. The memo had many recommendations-and questions. About one problem Watson wrote Carter: "We have identified 20 priority targets for organization and have liaison teams to go into the departments after the election. The question is whether the teams should begin before you have appointed the new department Secretary. There is a strong case to be made that we should wait." Carter's answer, scribbled in blue ink in the margin, was crisp and clear...
...true that there was little daily coverage of the candidates' stands on issues, but they were not very vigorously asserted by the candidates themselves. Where were the major policy speeches comparable to those by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, or even to the sheaves of "position papers" on every subject that Nixon put out in 1968? This was a campaign dominated by admen's televised simplicities, endlessly repeated...
BUILDINGS, VERITABLE VERITAS--Not a single Harvard building now stands in its original 17th century state. Stoughton College, Harvard's last 17th century building, was subject to colonial wartime neglect, and in 1781 it was scrapped. The present Stoughton Hall was built...
...History (Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant)"--read as follows: "An Introduction to an undergraduate honor thesis may seem presumptuous, but I believe that its inordinate length and unorthodox method require an explanation...the length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started to work on the thesis. As it grew, I made several efforts to cut it down...