he was selected to nominate PresidentWilliam Howard Taftfor a second term. (In 1921, he would nominate Taft to serve as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.) In 1914, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Regarded as a fine public speaker, he gave the keynote address at the 1916...
The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 44 in 1965 was automobile accidents. President Lyndon B. Johnson decided enough was enough and on Sept. 9 of the following year signed into law the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. That law was immediately followed up ...
On Friday, another Massachusetts politiciancould jump into the fray on the other side of the aisle. Former Gov. William Weld, who ran for vice president on the Libertarian ticket in 2016, is set to addressPolitics & Eggson Friday in Bedford....
William Rehnquist (1972-1986; later served as Chief Justice from 1986-2005) John Paul Stevens (1975-2010) Sandra Day O’Connor (1981-2006) Selected Landmark Cases of the Burger Court: Thornburg v. Gingles(1986) Author:William Brennan ...
William G. McAdoo, a Senator and Wilson cabinet appointee, later said of that a typical Harding speech was “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” In 1920, Harding entered several early Republican presidential primaries; he fared poorly and wanted to ...
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BOB SCHIEFFER: Earlier, we travelled to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia where Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is now chancellor and we asked him about the problems in the V.A. SECRETARY ROBERT GATES: ...If there's one bureaucracy in Washington that's more...
“He’d start holding forth, and before a minute or two had gone by he’d have an audience, maybe ten to twenty people,” remembered William Wayne Jones, a fellow nondrinker and a future Methodist missionary. “He would do it so humbly you were just in thrall. He’d say, ‘I ...
Another witness for the defense was professor William Birdthistle, an expert on investment funds and corporate law at Chicago-Kent College of Law: "So when Trump said he would stand up to Wall Street on behalf of Main Street, this is his first test ...
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