If this figure includes not just individuals he murdered personally but people he authorized subordinates to kill, it is surely a gross underestimate.
President Nixon, it was clear, one, directed or authorized his subordinates to interfere with the impartial and nonpolitical administration of the internal revenue law for political purposes.
When the Medicine Lodge Treaty was broken in 1868, Sherman authorized his subordinate in Missouri, Philip Sheridan, to conduct the Winter Campaign of 1868-69 (of which the Battle of Washita River was a part), where Sheridan used hard-war tactics similar to those he and Sherman had employed in the Civil War.
The official, A. Ellen Terpstra, who is now deputy under secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, also wrongly had a subordinate authorize the premium class, the report says.
Nixon's May 22 statement proclaiming his innocence ("I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates to engage in illegal or improper campaign tactics")., "rather than answering all these questions,raises a host of others," Silbert observed.
Even so, Ms. Teuber said, the trips may not have been properly authorized, because a subordinate to Ms. Terpstra, instead of a superior, had approved the business-class travel.
When surveillance records become fully available, Mr. Marable asserts, "it would not be entirely surprising if an F.B.I. transcript surfaced documenting a telephone call from Elijah Muhammad to a subordinate, authorizing Malcolm's murder," but he does not come up with a smoking gun on that count in these pages.
Subordination: Since the House amendment authorizes subordination of claims only under principles of equitable subordination, and thus incorporates principles of existing case law, a tax claim would rarely be subordinated under this provision of the bill.
If subordinates cannot identify psychologically with the chief executive as the representative of the whole, they will be unable to cede their autonomy to the CEO and, in effect, psychologically authorize him or her to lead.
Click "authorize device".
One reason might be the one that Mr. Olson gave, that "the Constitution explicitly commits to the president's discretion the authority to obtain the opinions of subordinates and to formulate recommendations for legislation" and that "Congress may neither intrude on the president's ability to perform these functions nor authorize private litigants to use the courts to do so".
