Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy in the mass transit area for the last ten years has been what is going to be done with the federal highway trust fund. Millions of dollars have been set aside for national defense highways, and the issue has aways been not whether to devote money to transportation from other parts of the budget-because after all we have other needs in this country equally as pressing-but can't we take some of those highway funds which are already there and use them to build mono-rails, bus lines or some other forms of transportation...
...answer of General Motors and the automobile manufacturers' association has been no-thou shalt' not touch money from the highway trust fund. Therefore there have been no new funds appropriate for mass transit because most of the people who want more mass transit thought that money should come out of the highway trust fund...
While realizing that our voices do not add very much to yours in spite of your commendably powerful and moderate presentations, we wish to join you in our own small way. We do own a GM car with both its engineering strengths and stupidities, have some investments held in trust as well as directly owned and have 9 children-4 of whom have been exposed to college and the others aspire to be in the future. We commend your ideas to them. We also are sending copies of this letter to President Pusey, the companies involved...
Twenty-seven hours after the vote on Carswell last week, Nixon faced reporters in the White House press briefing room. Beside him was Attorney General John Mitchell, his presence apparently an indication of Nixon's continued trust in him. The President's jaw was taut. His eyes were angry, his words clipped. "I have reluctantly concluded," he declared, "that it is not possible to get confirmation for a judge on the Supreme Court of any man who believes in the strict construction of the Constitution, as I do, if he happens to come from the South." He accused his opponents...
...Faculty simply wanted to make the language as clear as possible," he said. "I trust the resolution has not changed in any fundamental sense...