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Toward the end of 1919, Woodrow Wilson's health broke down and he went into a kind of exhausted twilight. He withdrew to his bedroom upstairs at the White House. He saw almost no one. Edith Wilson began receiving Cabinet members in the next room, relaying what she said were her husband's wishes. Wilson's enemies on Capitol Hill claimed that she had taken over the Administration. "Mrs. Wilson is President!" shouted Senator Albert Fall of New Mexico. "We have petticoat government...
Victor J. Yannacone Jr., a Long Island lawyer who fought to ban the insecticide DDT in the '60s, filed a class action against the manufacturers of Agent Orange in 1979. (He later withdrew from the case in a dispute with other attorneys for the veterans.) During the next five years the case provoked waves of other suits, countersuits, motions and medical examinations, as well as conflicting claims about the harmful effects of dioxin on humans...
...been "adequately informed in a timely manner." Casey assured Senators that the mining operation had been halted, and that both the Senate and House intelligence committees would be notified of any similar operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who withdrew his resignation as vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. Casey and the Senate committee also agreed on the need for "more thorough and effective oversight procedures, especially in the area of covert action...
...prototype of tales of political folly, Tuchman says, is the story of the Seige of Troy. Why would the Trojans suspect nothing when their enemies for 10 years, the Greeks, withdrew suddenly in the middle of the night and left a huge wooden horse behind them? The Trojans neglected even to examine the horse before tearing down the gates of their city to bring it inside...
...struck a deal with Kennedy, under which the Senator withdrew a motion condemning U.S. refusal to accept World Court jurisdiction on Central American questions, and the White House in return made no effort to defeat the antimining resolution...