Word: towers
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WASHINGTON--Senators clashed yesterday in a party-line floor battle on John G. Tower's faltering nomination, while the White House conceded President Bush has failed to persuade a single Democrat to support his chosen defense secretary...
Mitchell (D-Maine), the Democratic leader, announced his opposition to the nomination in a midday speech on the Senate floor, citing Tower's ties to defense consultants and his drinking...
Mitchell said he read the FBI report on Tower and met with Bush at the White House where he expressed his concerns about the nomination...
...only after careful study of this record that I have concluded that John Tower is not the man to provide leadership by example to the military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense, especially in the difficult job of reforming the Pentagon's administration and procurement practices in a period of budget stringency," Mitchell said...
...Tower lashed out at what he said was the absence of clearly defined standards against which he was being judged. He noted that several senators have said that the secretary of defense, as the commander of U.S. military forces behind only the president, must adhere to a higher standard. "I accept that...but my question is how much," he said...