Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...more than an hour, the two men sat under a magnolia tree in the Rose Garden and talked. Yellow legal pad in lap, Jimmy Carter did more listening than speaking. They met again that afternoon with their advisers present, then by themselves the next morning. The meetings, as Press Secretary Jody Powell observed, were "very warm," and at the state dinner held that night in his guest's honor, Carter himself jokingly alluded to the admiration he felt for his visitor. "I'm thankful one man is not running against me," the President said. "How would you like...
...argue. From experience as a prosecutor I knew that the number of people involved in trying to effect a request like that could only make matters worse. But an order from John Mitchell to pass along a message was not to be disobeyed. I found Kleindienst at the Burning Tree golf course, seated at a table in the middle of the dining room, lunching with others. I caught his eye and gestured to him. He caught my signal and made his way to me. I told him that I had a personal message from John Mitchell...
Many recognized them from previous Monday mornings. Ailanthus (named after a hearty tree that grows even through cracks in city sidewalks) has sent leafletters to the site every week for nearly a year, hoping to persuade workers the lab should not design nuclear weapons. A proposal that Draper design mass transit systems failed in the early '70s when it did not get federal funding...
...Richard Thornburgh: "The President proposes to cut the kinds of programs best adapted to changing times, such as general revenue sharing, while retaining rigid categorical grants [those that finance specific activities like vocational education and the running of mental health centers] that have been festooned on the federal Christmas tree by special interests. This may be good political strategy, but it is poor public policy." Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut III counts 498 federal programs that benefit cities and adds sarcastically, "There are 497 of these less important than general revenue sharing. It is the glue that holds the city...
...students had pleaded no contest to the Dec. 6 killing. Police said the five students captured their fraternity house cat, cut off its paws, hung it from a tree, and then set the animal on fire...