Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual and academic community, rounded up by White House Aide Robert Goldwin, come to lunch or dinner to exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
MELVIN LAIRD, 52. Ford's closest friend while in the House, Laird (who held a Wisconsin seat for 16 years) provided advice and comfort for the new President during his trying early days in the White House. Laird could be useful in mending fences with Congress. When he was summoned by Nixon to restore order to the White House at the height of Watergate, he was not so much as brushed by the scandal. Unlike almost everyone else who got close to Nixon in his last year in office, Laird emerged with his reputation totally intact. A practical politician...
...private, NASA officials were less optimistic. Most agreed with Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, who said the flight only "reinforces my deep concern that [the joint mission] may be dangerous to American astronauts...
Bird has no credentials in education other than her degrees from the universities of Toledo and Wisconsin, but she apparently has done her homework. She writes that "College is good for some people, but it is not good for everybody." The problem, she says, is that for the past decade or so, in a great wave of democratization, society has made college available-if not imperative-to most of the youthful population. Fully half of all U.S. high school graduates now go on to some form of higher education, and the percentage is climbing every year...
...blood-soaked land we were passing through. Still, certain places with history caught us in their web so that we experienced more than our seatbelted cocoon. Just beyond Chattanooga was the battlefield of Chickamagua, where my great-great-grandfather was killed in 1863, leading his unit of a Wisconsin Norwegian regiment...