Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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> CITIES AND ENVIRONMENT. Congress failed even to take up the President's anti-crime package, or his innovative plans to share federal revenues with the states and to shift the main burden of welfare payments to the Federal Government. The Congress did, however, almost double the Administration's...
Debate Center. The arguments over priorities in the spending of the Government's limited funds may become sharper as the second session of the Congress opens in an election year. Democrats will want to portray the Administration as shirking domestic needs, and Republicans will try to blame Democrats in...
Richard Nixon is a great believer in education by travel. He has said that his grounding in international affairs derives from his peripatetic years as Vice President. So it was only a matter of time until Nixon pinned wings on his own Vice President. Last week Spiro Agnew, his wife...
Agnew's departure was not without the flourish of controversy that has become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were...
Briefing Books. Preparations in Washington for Agnew's journey were necessarily elaborate because of his inexperience in international affairs. He has gone abroad only twice before, both times to Europe. In the week before he left, Agnew pored over massive State Department briefing books and held lengthy discussions with...