If you want to get a bill through Congress, the way to do it is to attach the word "reform." This label appears to have magic properties to guide a bill successfully through the labyrinths of the legislative process. That bit of semantics is the … [Read more...] about Tax Act of 1976

Harold Brown, former Secretary of the Air Force and now president of California Institute of Technology, has emerged as one of the few controversial appointees in Jimmy Carter's Cabinet. The military hardliners are critical of him because of his … [Read more...] about Harold Brown Appointment

Jimmy Carter's election as President becomes official on January 6 when Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, before a joint session of Congress, opens the certificates proving that Carter has won a majority of votes in the Electoral College. Some … [Read more...] about Electoral College Changes

The big economic question is not how much the oil price increase announced by OPEC will cost us in 1977. Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson has already estimated the price tag at $2 billion plus an additional one percent of excess … [Read more...] about Oil Price Increase

The single most impressive relic of Christianity is called the Holy Shroud. It is now and has been for 400 years in the Cathedral at Turin, Italy. It is a beautifully made linen cloth fourteen feet, three inches long and three feet, seven inches … [Read more...] about The Holy Shroud

An original plan to stop American corporations from doing business with Communist countries has been launched by an organization calling itself "Stockholders for World Freedom." Probably most Americans oppose the granting of aid and loans to … [Read more...] about Stockholders for Freedom

When historians describe the years 1969 to 1976, the name of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will emerge as more influential than Presidents Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford. Because Kissinger is probably the hardest working, the wittiest, and the … [Read more...] about Kissinger’s Legacy

It is a customary occurrence for elected officials to undergo significant changes in attitudes between the time they are campaigning for votes and the time they make decisions after they are in office. Although this metamorphosis is usually … [Read more...] about Building the B-1

Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield recently returned from Asia urging the United States to recognize Mainland China and withdraw recognition from the Republic of China on Taiwan. He also called for terminating our mutual defense treaty with … [Read more...] about Opportunity in China