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...defeated McIntyre by 72 votes. But when a partial recount showed McIntyre with a 34-vote lead, Indiana's Republican secretary of state sent an official certification of his victory to Washington. As Congress convened in January, another recount was under way, and the House leadership refused to swear in McIntyre. Finally, a House task force of two Democrats and one Republican was assigned to oversee another recount. It took more than just an adding machine: at the heart of the dispute was a batch of absentee ballots in invalid form, some of which had been lumped into the total...
...vood send this stuff to Mikey; but den all he wood do is tear it up, swear, and nobody get any ha, ha's. I vood of send him the playing record "This is My Shining Hour," too; but I don't trust the post mail. I think they would brake the record. It be nice for Mike to play this record vile he reads the newspaper stuff...
...Building by 10:30 a.m. by Senators Charles McC. Mathias and Wendell Ford, the chairman and a minority member respectively of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The split-second Inaugural script, worked out in rehearsals staged with military personnel standing in for the Reagans, called for the swearing-in to begin just before noon. The oath of office was to be administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger before an invited assembly encompassing both houses of Congress, the rest of the Supreme Court, the President's Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 300-member Washington diplomatic corps...
...said that the Italians taught him several new swear words, and that he spent the ten days "paying undue attention to a cute, redheaded Norwegian girl," attention that was very much reciprocated...
...front of St. Stanislaw Kostka Church, all but enveloping the building and spilling down the neighboring streets. For the first time since the military crackdown, Walesa addressed an enormous crowd. At the very mention of his name, Poles began to cheer and flash the V-for-victory sign. "We swear that we will never forget his death," Walesa declared. "A Poland that has such priests has not lost and shall never be lost...