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However sincere Bok was in his request for letters, students regarded it as a token effort. After Bok rejected their demands to set up a student committee to screen the final candidates, they formed the Coaltition for Responsible Dean Selection (CORDS) to protest their exclusion from the selection process...
Dole: Mr. President, I think his (Regan's) training has been in the financial market. As everybody knows, Mr. Regan demonstrated his effectiveness in building a company which he has headed until the time he has taken this assignment at the request of President Reagan...
...Parkland Hospital in Dallas and pushed it into the ambulance, I, who was Air Force aide to the President, never left the coffin except for a few minutes. I did so only to talk to the pilot of Air Force One, and this was at Mrs. Kennedy's request. She wanted to expedite our departure. During this time Mrs. Kennedy, along with Larry O'Brien and Dave Powers, remained at the side of the casket. To suggest that anyone could have taken the body of the President out of the coffin with Mrs. Kennedy...
...increase by a vote of 305 to 104. In the G.O.P.-controlled Senate, however, Democrats played the same kind of charade that the Republicans had so long used on them. The Democrats pushed a motion to raise the debt ceiling by only $28 billion, rather than Reagan's requested $50 billion, on the specious ground that the President's drive to cut spending ought to make the bigger increase unnecessary. The motion was defeated by 51 Republicans and Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana, voting against 41 other Democrats. Even then, the Senate indulged in six hours of partisan...
...responsible for choosing new Law deans--refused to yield to student pressures and continually repeated his request that students write him letters to express their views...