Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Haig improperly ask Ford to pardon Nixon? Haig, in a meeting with Vice President Gerald Ford on Aug. 1, 1974, advised Ford that he would have the power to pardon Nixon for any Watergate crimes after Nixon left office. Both men say this was cited as merely one of several options open to Ford and that Haig did not urge it. Both also insist that no deal was struck under which Nixon would resign only if he were assured of getting a pardon from Ford...
...period, and both the U.S. and Japan have decided to increase their stockpiles. Without that small world glut, OPEC would probably be pushing up prices even faster. Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar, who is normally one of the OPEC hawks, said after the Bali meeting: won't ask for higher prices if the market won't permit...
...ask about him and the answer will almost always take the circuitous form of speculation about his future relation to Plains. Will he or won't he live here? Will the Carter Library be here or in Atlanta? Rosalynn, they tell me, has said in a recent interview that they'll keep a place in Atlanta but will mostly be here where Jimmy will be writing; and that Amy will go to public school in the county. It's frequently mentioned that the abandoned Plains high school might make a good site for the presidential library...
...solid reputation for being nobody's man but his own. Los Angeles Attorney Seth Hufstedler, husband of Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler and a Democrat, feels that Smith's views will certainly coincide with Reagan's. But Hufstedler adds: "If you ask 100 lawyers in Los Angeles-make that 100 Democratic lawyers-I don't believe that you will find one who would doubt Smith's integrity...
...President and the president of General Motors-has a motive in giving facts to the press," says A.M. Rosenthal, the New York Times's executive editor. For Rosenthal, sources "may be unknown but cannot be unknowable." Only rarely, in deciding how to play a story, does he ask a reporter or editor for his confidential source, and "nobody has ever refused." That is one kind of morality at work, the pledged word. As an absolute, such morality impresses journalists more than it does outsiders, including judges...