Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
That combative instinct, which enabled Sirica to rise to his greatest courtroom challenge, has marked much of his career. Combined with a handy temper, it has also led him to be reversed on appeal more often than most judges on the average, and has brought protests from civil libertarians. Late in 1972, for example, he jailed the Los Angeles Times's Washington bureau chief, John Lawrence, for contempt of court when the newsman failed to produce tape recordings of a Watergate-related interview (the appeals court promptly freed Lawrence). Although sensitive about criticism, Sirica reacts typically by fighting back...
Though her usually sunny disposition makes her probably the most universally well-liked and respected person in the Nixon inner staff, she has a temper. She has flashed it in Judge Sirica's courtroom, and against politicians and journalists who criticized Nixon. During a recent Nixon press conference that she watched on television in her apartment, she sprang out of her chair and shouted epithets at the on-screen newsmen whose questions she considered impertinent. As the Watergate drama unfolds, a major question is just what might be the limits of the secretary's loyalty to her boss of nearly...
...energy czar, could hardly be greater. Love, a former Colorado Governor, has been described by one Government energy official as "a pleasant guy who just doesn't want to make a decision if he can avoid it." Wall Streeter Simon is known for decisiveness and a hot temper. In not quite a year in Washington, he has also displayed a talent for bureaucratic infighting. A good five months before the Arab embargo, Simon, as head of the Government's Oil Policy Committee, was already talking about the possibility of imposing a 50-m.p.h. speed limit on motorists...
...jawbone" companies or unions into rescinding them. Shultz and Stein oppose jawboning because they think that it interferes with market forces and cannot be used fairly. They believe that a new agency should concentrate on stopping inflationary actions taken by the Government. In the recent past, bureaucratic infighting helped temper prices. Earlier this year, for example, the COLC practically forced Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to allow farmers to expand acreage of several crops. As a result, the U.S. is enjoying a record harvest of food, which should ease the continuing rise in supermarket prices. It is doubtful, however, that...