Word: tafts
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Secretary of State George Shultz and the Pentagon's number two official, Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft, did acknowledge the United States had hoped the strike might foster an internal revolt against Khadafy. Taft also said the United States was "certainly prepared" to deal with the consequences of killing khadafy during the raid, but stressed the administration...
...production team huddling around Writer Shelton as he draws ploys in the practice-field dirt with his finger. Hey, guys, get this! A dozen years ago, Jack Dundee (Robin Williams) drops what would have been the game-winning pass from Reno Hightower (Kurt Russell), the best quarterback in Taft High School history. It was more than a ball Jack bobbled. It was the only decent chance Taft ever had to beat big, bad Bakersfield down the road and restore a sense of pride in a town known mainly for plagues of mice and seagulls. Reno has passed the years customizing...
While Weinberger was still in Brussels, Reagan convened the National Security Council Planning Group last Tuesday to reach a final decision. Deputy Defense Secretary William Taft, sitting in for his boss, repeated the Pentagon case that there was no need at the moment for a new proposal, and that the terms had to be more favorable to the U.S. But Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins, representing the JCS, said the Joint Chiefs did not find the plan detrimental to U.S. military interests. Having put the numbers through the & wringer, he said, the military brass found them acceptable...
...event is memorable not only for its comprehensive display of early flying contrivances, but also for its group of celebrity spectators. Among the show's thousands of observers were President Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Draper of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and President Lowell of Harvard...
...Reagan would have to name a replacement for Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high...