Word: symington
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...budget impasse was becoming known as the Washington fight that closed down the Grand Canyon, and Arizona Governor Fife Symington was having none of it. Friday morning, Symington ordered National Guard troops to the canyon to "render assistance" until furloughed National Park Service workers return. A few hours later, the Interior Department ordered the governor to stand down. If the Guard did it for the Grand Canyon, Interior's lawyers reasoned, they would have to do it for all 369 parks and monuments in the country. "Once that started snowballing, you couldn't control it," said Park Service spokesman David...
Westerners are outraged at the EPA's costly new one-size-fits-all vehicle-emission standards, which they say make no sense in sparsely populated areas. "It's not fair applying Eastern, urban standards to rural areas," complains John Kelly, a policy aide to Arizona Governor Fife Symington...
...until recently no one outside the states seemed to be paying attention. The Democratic-run Congress happily ignored the likes of Republicans Weld, Engler and Thompson, played down the lawsuits and appeared not to hear rhetoric like that of Arizona Governor Fife Symington, a Republican who recently speechified, ``Let the little potentates of the Potomac be warned; we are growing weary of your ways, so kindly get out of ours...
...Fife Symington...
...them whales, grand political men (three women, no blacks) with all the flaws of the day and hardy battlers for their partisan causes. But they were by almost anybody's standards an extraordinary collection of public figures: Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Vermont's George Aiken, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Ohio's Bob Taft, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, Virginia's Harry Byrd...