Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Once again, high drama in Washington. Television's glaring floodlights may switch back on as early as next week in a Senate hearing room. Nine solemn Senators will lean into microphones to direct pointed questions across a massive table at some of the nation's highest officials, including almost certainly the Attorney General, the President's counsel and the President's National Security Adviser. The select group of Senators may go off to the White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn...
Republicans could barely conceal their glee. Candidate Reagan sounded artfully sympathetic, saying, "You cannot confine relatives of elected officials to not having careers of their own." A Reagan aide was more direct: "The thing is going along just fine without any help from...
...Eisenhower brothers kept their political disagreements largely to themselves. And, nepotism be damned, Ike drew his youngest brother Milton, a university president (Johns Hopkins) and long-time civil servant into his inner circle. Milton gave Ike important advice on his direct telephone line to the White House, and made the 40-minute drive to Washington from his home in Baltimore several times a week. It was Milton who encouraged Ike to accept the Republican nomination in 1952, and it was Milton who said he should seek a second term in 1956. He also advised Ike's 1953 atoms-for-peace...
...usually bind the convention delegates. In 1952, for example, Estes Kefauver swept through the 15 primaries, only to be denied the nomination by party bosses who gave it to Adlai Stevenson instead. Under the new rules drafted after 1968, the results of the primaries became binding on convention delegates. "Direct democracy" had triumphed. The convention, rather than choosing a President, simply celebrated the result. Says Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum, whose father Alf Landon was nominated at a "real" convention in 1936: "I miss the rough-and-tumble. This is all a little sanitized...
...Simple, direct and suffused with melancholy, the poems were carried into the trenches of World War I by thousands of "lads," few of whom knew anything of the author-just as the poet wished. A Cambridge don who shunned any mention of his verse, Housman hid behind a late-Victorian mask of colorless propriety. The flamboyant London literary scene of the turn of the century left him cold. "He was like an absconding cashier," recalled Max Beerbohm. "We certainly wished he would abscond...