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...legislation. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens (video footage can be found here, although camera cutaways make it hard to keep track) and gave one of the first ones to Martin Luther King Jr. Senators Hubert Humphrey and Everett McKinley Dirksen also received pens for their aid in shuttling the bill through Congress. And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill - which allowed Presidents to veto individual sections of legislation rather than the entire thing - to those most likely...
...addition to Cambridge and Everett, the contested district includes Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Chelsea, Revere, Saugus, and Somerville...
...Wheeler said that Decker and her campaign team concluded this weekend that it is “nearly impossible for anyone but the Everett candidate to win” the seat. She noted that Everett has historically produced 40 percent of the voters in special elections for the district—and Sal DiDomenico, Galluccio’s chief of staff, is the sole candidate from Everett...
...months in the spring while spending the rest of the year on their farms. The greater power has added bureaucracy and it often takes the clout and leverage of an elder statesman to push through legislation: just look at the prolific careers of Ted Kennedy or Everett Dirksen...
...would think that it’s pretty hard not to notice a Red Line train. You would also think it’s not a good idea to drive into one. Apparently, Jefferson Mondesir, a 30-year-old resident of Everett, disagrees with us on both counts...