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Jeopary Questions page 1178 - THE CATEGORY OF DANIEL ...  THE GOAT: In May 1988 Ed Meese, facing calls to quit this cabinet post, instead fired his spokesman  THE ARCHER: This Homeric hero shot the suitors of his...
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Complete Program Transcript . Reagan . WGBH American ... - PBS  Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff to Governor Reagan: Ronald Reagan came up from middle .... Narrator: His role as celebrity spokesman took him to GE plants across the country. .... Reporter (archival): Do you discount the fact that many women may be ... Narrator: Patti was not the only Reagan facing an image problem.
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Reagan Asks the Cabinet to Resign To Give Bush Flexibility in Choice  Reagan Asks the Cabinet to Resign To Give Bush Flexibility in Choice ... Published: November 11, 1988 ... prized positions like White House chief of staff and Secretary of Defense. ... first term - James A. Baker 3d, Michael K. Deaver and Edwin Meese 3d. ... Mr. Bush said ''things couldn't be going better,'' that his transition...
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WATT QUITS POST - PRESIDENT ACCEPTS WITH 'RELUCTANCE ...  Oct 10, 1983 ... 'Usefulness' at an End In his letter of resignation, Mr. Watt said: ''It is my view that ... the face of growing support for a resolution in the Senate calling for his ouster. ... job as a member of my Cabinet and in his stewardship of the natural ... Edwin Meese 3d, the White House counselor, and James A. Baker 3d,...
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Edwin Meese - Wikipedia  Edwin "Ed" Meese, III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author ... At age 10, Meese published along with his brothers a mimeographed ... He graduated in 1958 and accepted a position with the district attorney's office of ... From January 1975 to May 1976, Meese served as vice president for...
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Announcement Dole Labor Secretary | Video | C-SPAN.org  December 24, 1988. Announcement of Dole as Labor Secretary ... When you accepted your party's nomination last August. ... Now your questions and then just ask our road to laborously she talked about over to pay when. ..... Secretary Dole is resigning her cabinet post to become national director of the American Red...
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THE 37TH PRESIDENT - In Three Decades, Nixon Tasted Crisis ...  Apr 24, 1994 ... Yet he was so motivated by hatreds and fears that he abused his ... two years later, in a bid for Governor of California by Edmund G. ... the anti-Nixon people in his own party, those Mr. Nixon had counted .... They led to Mr. Hiss's indictment on a charge of perjury, and after two trials he was convicted in 1950.
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Governor Weld Resignation Announcement | Video | C-SPAN.org  Governor Weld formally announced his resignation in order to pursue his goal of becoming U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. ... July 28, 1997. Governor Weld ... to Mexico. He stated that he read more ... Also Luci not only will stop us from slipping back. But he'll keep moving us .... William "Bill" F. Weld Governor Massachusetts.
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Les Aspin resigns as Defense Secretary, Dec. 15, 1993 - POLITICO  Dec 15, 2010 ... On this day in 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the resignation of former Rep. ... From his perch as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, the ... While the president cited personal reasons for Aspin's abrupt departure, it was widely ... He continued to serve as defense secretary until Feb.
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Japan Aide Quits Over Remark on WWII - latimes  May 14, 1988 ... He was a prefectural director of the Kempeitai, or secret military police, during the war. ... of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries. ... It was the second time in less than two years that a Cabinet minister ... In September, 1986, Masayuki Fujio was dismissed as minister of education by...
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Richard Nixon - Wikipedia  Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913  April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office. ... Nixon served for eight years as vice president. He waged an unsuccessful...
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JAPAN'S EDUCATION CHIEF GETS LESSON IN DIPLOMACY ...  Sep 10, 1986 ... For nearly two months, Education Minister Masayuki Fujio unnerved his ... He also had unkind words for the American postwar occupation of his country. ... and protested what it called Japanese attempts to ''justify'' its old colonial rule. ... It was also the first dismissal of a Cabinet member in 34 years, and it...
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AllPolitics - Weld Quits Nomination Fight - Sep. 15, 1997 - CNN.com  Sep 15, 1997 ... The former Massachusetts governor said he decided that whether or not ... a statement, "He would have been a superb ambassador to Mexico.
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The Resignation Of Jim Wright : Speaker's Downfall - latimes  Jun 1, 1989 ... ... that led up to Wednesday's resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.). ... Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) files a formal complaint with the House Committee on Standards of ... 22, 1989--After more than six months of investigation and ... to evade House limits on outside income through sales of his book.
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James Watt - Secretary of the Interior, 1981-1983 - Top 10 Worst ...  You can say this for Watt: he was a quote machine. The Reagan appointee once infamously bifurcated the American people into "liberals and Americans," made...
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Edwin Meese III - Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs - The Legal ...  From 1985 through 1988, a period covering both the Iran-Contra Affairs and their public exposure, Edwin Meese III served as the United States attorney general.
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The Greatest Presidential Comebacks - POLITICO Magazine  Aug 27, 2016 ... Heading into election day in 1948, most everyone seemed certain ... CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, HARRY TRUMAN SHOULD QUIT. ... First, there was Thomas Dewey, a stiff, dour former prosecutor entirely lacking in common touch. ... the former Georgia governor sorely compromised his squeaky-clean...
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North's Ex-Secretary Tells of Altering Memos - NYTimes.com  Mar 23, 1989 ... LEAD: Oliver L. North's former secretary, saying her action at the time was ... and shredded classified papers in a frantic effort to protect her boss. ... as when she testified at the Iran-contra Congressional hearings in June 1987.
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Earl Butz - Wikipedia  Earl Lauer Butz (July 3, 1909  February 2, 2008) was a United States government official who ... He left both of the aforementioned posts in 1957, when he became the Dean of Agriculture at his ... In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Butz as Secretary of Agriculture, a position in ..... Environmental Protection Agency.
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Why Ronald Reagan Couldn't Abolish the Department of Education  Jun 29, 2012 ... As many of us remember, Ronald Reagan, when he became the 40th ... by promising them a cabinet-level Department of Education, which the NEA had been ... But the NEA, anxious to get its grubby hands on billions of federal dollars, ... Conservatives had opposed the creation of the department and had...
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Earl Butz, history's victim. - Slate  Feb 4, 2008 ... The obituaries for Earl Butzwho went to his reward Feb. ... How the gears of racial progress tore up Nixon's Agriculture secretary. ... Mr. Butz was forced to resign in October 1976 after telling a joke that was derogatory to blacks. The slur was overheard by John W. Dean III, the White House counsel to...