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...revive public trust in a Justice Department plagued by the scandalridden Edwin Meese, then Institute of Politics Director Richard Thornburgh, who had earned a reputation for integrity during his tenure as governor of Pennsylvania, took the post of Attorney General. Thornburgh's nomination, like Cavazos's, received unanimous confirmation from the Senate earlier in the summer...
...Pennsylvania cabinet member in the administration of former governor and current Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Richard L. Thornburgh, Dennis was instrumental in creating fair housing, job training and economic revitalization programs...
...tapped into the old boy network when I became a member of Richard Thornburgh's cabinet, I tapped into the old boy network again when I became a sub-cabinet member in the Reagan administration, because it was through [an acquaintance] that I was brought to the attention of people who make appointments," she says...
...Bush had cited in the debate. Dukakis also named cases where the A.C.L.U. has sued his Massachusetts administration -- over random roadblocks and for resisting the assignment of foster children to gay couples. So successful has Bush been in making the A.C.L.U. into a boogeyman that even his friend Dick Thornburgh, the new Attorney General, has had to scramble away from the group. He was a director of the Pittsburgh A.C.L.U. chapter from...
...Extraordinary, unique!" Attorney General Dick Thornburgh exclaimed of the drug-fighting airplane proudly displayed last week by the U.S. Customs Service. A dazzling new aircraft? No. It was a used Lockheed P-3 Orion, designed in the 1950s. The $31 million turboprop has just one major innovation: a 360 degrees radar dome capable of spotting smugglers' low-flying planes as effectively as the $48 million Grumman E-2C Hawkeye, which Customs had been using. The Lockheed can stay aloft twelve hours -- three times as long as the Hawkeye, which must refuel after four hours...