Word: thompson
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...show, which will be performed April 9-12 in Agassiz Theater, will be about a politician and a matador in a small Spanish town, said co-producer Anne M. Thompson...
...original plot but we'll be incorporating all the generic theater elements," Thompson said...
...Thompson may have other reasons to be concerned about preserving the powers of the President. He is being mentioned as one of his party's best prospects for the year 2000. Of course, another Tennessean is Clinton's understudy; by then, Al Gore will have had eight years to learn the role...
...same time, however, the experience of Watergate has made Thompson wary of what is sometimes done in the name of reform. He believes that the laws passed in its wake actually created some of the abuses that riddle the system today. For instance, political-action committees, now considered the very essence of special-interest insiderism, were intended as tools for the little guy, giving small donors a chance to gain more influence by pooling their contributions. "It shows me the difficulty of micromanaging this problem with legislation," Thompson says...
That Watergate paralyzed Washington, leaving little energy for getting anything else done, was not its worst legacy, in Thompson's eyes. Congress took advantage of a weakened Chief Executive to pass laws that permanently undermined the presidency, giving Congress more say in areas that range from committing troops to combat to forcing the President into spending the money it votes. Says Thompson: "It really has to do with the balance of power, and checks and balances. When you have a White House under siege, those things tend to get out of kilter...