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Last week's crowd, which numbered nearly 2,500, was gathered for the Gerald R. Ford Museum's Humor and the Presidency Symposium in Grand Rapids, likened by Comedian Pat Paulsen to the "Ayatullah Khomeini Symposium on the Sexual Revolution." The convocation, which included a comedy show and a banquet, marks the fifth anniversary of the museum where the Ford Administration's documents are stored -- "in a Dixie cup," according to Paulsen. "It's very exciting here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pratfalls of the Presidency | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Weinberger joined Randall Forsberg, executive director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, as principal speaker at the symposium entitled "Beyond Deterrence: Avoiding Nuclear War in the Longer...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...events unfolding in Pakistan occupied Weinberger's attention throughout the symposium, and several times he was handed notes updating the situation. Towards the end, he interrupted the discussion to state the hostage drama had ended...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Judges must use the original intent of the founding fathers as their guiding principle when they interpret the Constitution, the U.S. Solicitor General said on September 5 at a symposium in Langdell Hall entitled, "Constrasting Approaches to the interpretation of the United States Constitution...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: What Did They Say? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...last year he decided that humor was a great presidential virtue that needed more study. So he scheduled a serious (sort of) symposium at his museum titled "Humor and the Presidency," then began badgering comics, cartoonists, gag writers and anybody else who had laughed with him--or at him. Ford's pitch: You guys made your living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Wit and Wisdom | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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