Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy about Haig's resignation? John Lofton, editor of something called the Conservative Digest, was asked the question that very night on ABC's Nightline. "For about a minute and eight seconds," Lofton replied- meaning, until he heard the name of Haig's successor. Once again, to a mind like Lofton's, Ronald Reagan was proving himself insufficiently Reaganite...
Haig, appearing before reporters and cheering subordinates in the State Department auditorium, simply read aloud his letter of resignation, which he had finally delivered, three hours after it had been accepted. He said about his successor Shultz: "My own knowledge of George and his experience, professionalism and integrity gives me the utmost confidence." Reagan and Haig both opened by announcing that they would answer no questions, and both left the podium quickly, ignoring shouts of "Why?" Reagan went by helicopter to Camp David shortly after his appearance. Later, a top White House aide was asked how Reagan felt about...
...version of the motive for Hoffa's murder. Testifying behind a screen that obscured his features, the man, who now calls himself Charles Allen, told a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering that Hoffa was killed so that he could not carry out a plot to kill his own successor as Teamsters president, Frank Fitzsimmons...
...restaurant in suburban Detroit, where he apparently had expected to arrange a meeting with Provenzano. Tony Pro is now back in prison. He was convicted in 1978 of ordering the murder of a former official of a New Jersey Teamsters local. Fitzsimmons died of cancer last year. His successor as Teamsters president, Roy L. Williams, has been indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery, and is expected to stand trial in Chicago this fall...
...finance, has long been a subject of swirling controversy. In 1975, during a deep recession, Democrats in Congress charged that the board's chairman, Arthur Burns, who served from 1970 to 1978, had made the downturn worse by keeping too tight a grip on the money supply. His successor, G. William Miller, was attacked with equal vigor later on for the opposite reason: pumping too much money into the economy during the Carter years and thus fueling inflation...