Congress Shuts Out on Secret Nixon Aid Pact
A Senate committee study shows a pattern of executive branch delays and secret agreements bypassing Congress. In 1976, 171 of 440 foreign pacts arrived late, and a 1974 West Germany accord surfaced two years after Congress could review it. Nixon’s North and South Vietnam letters, disclosed only after 1975 complaints, revealed a $3.25 billion grant aid plan over five years unshared with Congress. Wolff called the situation incredulous.
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United States
Congress
Senate
Clifford P Case
R-N.j
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clement J. Zabrocki
D-Wis
House International Relations Committee
Senate Committee
Executive Branch
Capitol Hill
West Germany
Richard M. Nixon
North
South Vietnam
Indochina
Nixon
Saigon
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Hanoi
North Vietnam
House
Lester L. Wolff
D-N.y
Washington
State Department
Wolff
Einterprise Assn
White House staff and Filipino mess cooks stir controversy
Jimmy Carter moved to curb limousine and television use and critics debate the reliance on Filipino servants in the White House Mess. The Navy explains trained staffing expanding beyond traditional roles, while diplomats note discomfort and archival ties to colonial eras. Proxmire and Ford era incidents color the debate as Carter delays a clear stance.
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Tom Tiede Washington
NEA
Jimmy Carter
White House
Philip
Carter
United States
Philippines
Navy
Queston
Eleanor Roosevelt
Executive
Roosevelt
Walter Mondale
Nelson Rockefeller
Proxmire
AL. Valencia
Ford
Valencia
Sen. Proxmire
The Loyal Order of Buffalo and the new AFL-CIO
Labor leaders led by George Meany shifted strategy to back sweeping federal labor reform. A 33-year-old Vic Kamber directs a nationwide one-on-one congressional liaison program with 435 activists, backed by state coalitions and a 22-minute film. The plan targets July hearings and a national coalition day after Labor Day to press for the proposed National Labor Relations Act revision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Riesel
Washington
George Meany
Loyal Order of Buffalo
al Barkan
Eugene
McCarth
Meany
White House
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Afl-Cio
Special Task Force
Vic Kamber
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
Kamber
America
Federations of Labor
Lke Tke
Dday
Labor
Gerald Feder
U.S. Senate
Zeus
Cronos
National Action Committee
Sitlls
South
Jimmy
Veld Newspaper
Syndicaye
Andrus Champions Small Farmer By JACK ANDERSON and LES WHITTEN
Washington report notes small farmers face extinction from big agribusiness unless Cecil Andrus enforces a long ignored land reform policy. Roosevelt era provisions aimed at 160 acre family plots are at risk through lax Bureau of Reclamation enforcement, benefiting large landholders and delaying rules. The piece cites Abourezk Haskell Nelson as supporters, while Waxman pushes broader asbestos bans amid slow regulatory action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Cecil Andrus
Interior
Teddy Roosevelt
Interior Department
Bureau of Reclamation
Andrus
Roosevelt
Congress
California
Netherland Antilles
National Land For People
Fresno
Calif
Gilbert Stams
Capital Hill
Capitol Hill
James Abourezk
D.-S.d
Floy Haskell
D.-Cole
Gaylord Nelson
Wry Blue Bloods and a Genealogy Dig
Uncle Josh and Aunt Phoenicia stay to help with genealogical work. Phoenicia visits county courthouses and graveyards, chasing royal bloodlines while the narrator endures long phone calls to libraries and societies in cities like Washington and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.K. Stoner
Phoenicia
Uncle Josh
United States
Penelope
Josh
Washington
Chicago
Boston
Salt Lake City
Worcester
Lbrarians
National Genealogical Society
The
American Antiquarian Society
Mormon Church Genealogical Library
Piney Penelope and Phoenicia Seek Noble Roots in Wild Genealogy
Phoenicia traces a grand quest through tangled family lines from Greece to Albania and Romania as Penelope interviews a senescent relative at OVER-THE-HILL REST HOME. Conflicting tales and drunken dukes surface, ending with a hopeful note that hidden blue blood may still lie in the roots, despite a dry rot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenicia
Theodore D. Pel
Zelda
Dar
Greece
Theopilus Demetrius Peloponnes
Penelope
Albania
Romania
Dunkard
Colorado
Nevada
June
Portland
Maine
Oregon
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Robert Walters
Tiede
Newspaper Enterprise Asso
India
Pakistan
COPE
Leo Perlis
HUD Water
Indiana
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Indiana, Pa
Gazette
A.M. Ray
Lucilla Br, Donnelly
Sally KR. Naylon
Elizabeth B. Sween
Juan Ray Reece
Joseph L. Donnelly Pereweive
Frank B. Hood
Associated Press
Associated Prev
al AP
Carrier Boy
Arstrong
Cumbria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Weatimoreland
Aod
Aicripoo
Tgal
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Commission
John Byington
Henry Waxman
D.cal
Byington
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Blue Bloods
Berry's
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