Pertinent Questions For Mrs Heckler To Head HHS
The Wall Street Journal notes potential Senate questions on Margaret Heckler as health and human services secretary focusing on public spending. It highlights HHS spending at 273 billion dollars this year, 25 percent higher than the Pentagon, and larger than most countries' GNPs, signaling concerns about defense versus social needs.
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Margaret Heckler
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Senate
Wall Street Journal
Health and Human Services
Pentagon
the Journal
Richard S. Schweiker
HHS
Reagan
Reagan Seeks News Leaks Control And Press Censorship
The article notes President Reagan pushing for staff clearance before talking to reporters amid leaks from White House meetings. It recalls Nixon era plumbers and quotes Reagan lamenting leaks, while arguing against gag orders and censorship as dangerous to a free press and public right to know.
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Reagan
White House
Nixon White House
Yuri Andropov
James Baker
Labor
Raymond Donovan
Baker
Texas
Dallas Morning News
Donovan
Privacy and Public Money in Government and Space
A critique argues public funding requires openness in spending and operations. It insists welfare rolls and astronaut health costs be accessible to taxpayers, linking government privacy with accountability and suggesting even presidents deserve scrutiny.
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NASA
Thought For Today Quote on Success and Disaster
A classic quotation urges meeting success like a gentleman and facing disaster like a man attributed to Lord Birkenhead, a statesman and legal scholar who lived 1872 to 1930.
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Lord Birkenhead
Tormented Presidency Faces Nuclear Dilemmas and Dismissals
The piece critiques Ronald Reagan's tenure as battered by staffing losses and policy clashes on arms control. It discusses Rostow's dismissal, deterrence versus disarmament, and Leon Wieseltier's New Republic analysis, arguing for combined deterrence and sustained arms cuts to avert catastrophe. It notes Eisenhower’s earlier tempests and surveys public polls favoring Mondale and Glenn.
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New York City
Ronald Reagan
Eugene Rostow
Washington
Fritz Mondale
John Glenn
Reagan
Eisenhower
Sen
Claiborne Pell
America
Russia
Rostow
Sen. Pell
Talleyrand
George Shultz
Fdr
Dear Dr Graham letter on honoring parents
A reader expresses anger at families neglecting elderly relatives in care homes. The response via Mrs T I. emphasizes the command to honor parents from Exodus 20 12, urges reflection and action to honor parents now, and notes the reader’s unique opportunity to do so.
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DR. Graham
Mrs. T.I
Ashley Cooper's New York Visit Aims For Light Entertainment
Ashley Cooper shares mock television show segments about his New York trip. He recalls meeting Clifton Daniel and Margaret Truman, touring the Metropolitan Opera, and offering opera homework tips. He describes security at Mobil Oil, tips on Puerto Rican English, and playful takes on New York traffic and Walk signals.
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Ashley
New York
Jesse Helms
Raleigh
North Carolina
New York Times
Clifton Daniel
Margaret Truman
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Party of Peace
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Wieseltier
West
Daniel Webster
Billy Graham
Ashley Cooper
By Ashley Cooper
Yours
Metropolitan Opera House
Mobil Oil
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Mobil
New Yorker
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