Word: watchdogging
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Immediately, problems surfaced in the form of the "Berlin Wall," an insurmountable barrier to communication with the President guarded by the ferocious watchdog team of John Ehrlichmann and H.R. Haldeman, whom Mollenhoff characterized as "inexperienced meddlers pulling political levers." Mollenhoff's unsuccessful early attempts to gain access to the Oval Office foreshadowed his later inability to implement any real reforms within the executive branch. "I had an opportunity from the first to view the real problems: excessive secrecy and an extreme political motivation that dominated their thinking," Mollenhoff said. These obsessions and the Nixon team's unshakeable belief in executive...
...According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number of Senators, including Edward Kennedy, quickly said that they would introduce bills this week to conform to the ruling and preserve the commission's watchdog status over campaign spending...
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. Levi announced that an Office of Professional Responsibility was being set up within the Justice Department to watchdog all of the agency's employees, including those of the FBI. The witnesses and the Senators agreed that Congress should go a step farther and set up its own committee to oversee the FBI. Ruckelshaus urged that such a committee "be privy to all information the FBI has relating to any specific investigation [and] operate as openly as possible." The committee's job would be to see that any new law was honored; demand the names of groups...
...areas in The Bronx and Brooklyn are next to slums, they are potentially desirable because they are conveniently located. The city could clear them and erect row houses to be sold to middle-class buyers. Says I.D. Robbins, a builder and former president of the City Club, a civic watchdog group: "There is a tremendous capital investment left over from the time these neighborhoods thrived. All that is missing is people...
...determined chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ray Garrett Jr. pushed through reforms long opposed by Wall Street. He also moved the watchdog agency into such new activities as demanding disclosure of bribes paid to Government officials by U.S. corporations. When Garrett leaves to rejoin his Chicago law firm, he will be succeeded by a corporate lawyer who may ruffle almost as many feathers. Last week President Ford nominated as the SEC's new chief Roderick M. Hills, 44, a presidential assistant and head of a White House task force looking into ways to reform federal regulatory agencies...