Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Bush yesterday named Rep. Richard Cheney (R-Wyo.) to be defense secretary, moving with surprising speed to leave behind the controversy caused by John G. Tower's rejection by the Senate...
Bush hailed Cheney as a "widely respected man of principle," and dismissed the Tower saga by saying, "Look that's history...
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole quickly hailed the appointment in a barbed comment that reflected the bitterness lingering from the Tower confirmation struggle...
Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) and Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) announced that they would oppose the Tower nomination, with Pell's decision a disappointment to the White House, which had worked to win over the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Pell cited Tower's lucrative ties to defense contractors, saying it would be difficult for Tower "to perform as secretary without certainly at least the appearance of conflict of interest...