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...White House says Congress is moving so slowly on other spending bills that Clinton may call lawmakers back from their August recess in order to complete needed appropriations. The last president to do that was Harry Truman...
...baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event on Capitol Hill, while Gephardt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and other Democrats will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary on Sunday in Independence, Mo., where President Johnson signed the legislation into law, sitting beside former President Harry Truman, who had fought long and hard for national health insurance.House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who spent the day in Iowa not running for President, offered this curt dismissal: "They plan a week of cheap shots and nostalgia. We're not cutting anything, we're increasing...
Prompted with "Denver," Boswell unfailingly responds, "Colorado." Asked to name a city in Colorado, however, he goes blank. Similarly, Boswell recognizes the category "horse" but cannot supply the example "Appaloosa." He knows "U.S. President" but not Harry Truman or Richard Nixon. Somewhere in his brain, the data may still exist, but he can no longer get at them. The reason, argue the Damasios, is that he has lost essential "convergence zones," mental switching stations that provide access to the information and relate it to other relevant data...
...even as he defended the organization from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others in Congress who want to slash U.S. funding and support of peacekeeping operations. "Over the years it has grown too bloated," Clinton said, addressing delegates from 185 nations in the War Memorial Opera House where President Truman addressed the original framers of the charter 50 years ago. "We must consider major structural changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with its own acronym, stationery and bureaucracy for every problem." That said, Clinton defended the organization against congressional critics. "Turning our backs...
Under President Truman, Cabot was the Directorof International Security Affairs in the StateDepartment. In 1953, he came back to the StateDepartment to advise the Egyptian government oneconomic development...