Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Bundy said he was unsure of the merit of Bush's recent nomination of John G. Tower for secretary of defense, he added that he thinks the choice of Brent Scowcroft as assistant to the president for national security affairs was a good one. Scowcroft now holds the same post Bundy did under President John F. Kennedy...
...little more than a year later, the building is empty and its owners are trying to sell it for $6.5 million, an asking price 30% to 50% less than the building might fetch if it were asbestos-free. In Manhattan the former J.C. Penney headquarters, a 45-story tower that was sold last May to a real estate partnership for $352 million, stands vacant while workers remove asbestos from the building. Estimated cost: $6 million...
...Word from the Hill to the White House that a former wife of John Tower, Secretary of Defense-designate, wants to testify about Tower's alleged indiscretions. Question to a White House aide: "Can the Bush Administration stand a sex story so soon?" Thoughtful pause from White House aide, then, "Maybe it will help...
Administration critics charge that another Bush appointee, Tower, will resist military cutbacks essential for an arms control agreement. Some have charged that Tower, who served as a consultant to defense contractors after retiring as chair of the Senate's armed services committee, has ties to the weapons industry that might impair his judgment...
...Defense Department "requires a very strong disciplinarian, a strong manager, and if there's anything that's true it's that John Tower is not a disciplined man or a manager," Carroll says...