That broad assertion of power, even with limits described by administration officials, combined with the initial White House refusal to release even a sanitized summary of the memo touched off protests from left and right.
The memo finished off by stating: "There should be no 'positive discrimination' in any new programmes," and also advised Mrs Thatcher to bar her ministers from proposing any state-funded solutions.
The memo set off an ethics scandal that reached into Tyson's executive suite and raises questions about who, if anyone, is being held accountable for high-level corporate crime.
By Hendrik Hertzberg August 12, 2008 Live-blogging last night's CNN debate between Senators Clinton and Obama, Josh Marshall, at Talking Points Memo, kicked off his post this way: 8 08 PM…What GOP operative masterminded holding this debate at the Kodak theatre with a bunch of movie stars in the audience?
From the 1963 memo dashed off by the head of the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office, which set the Advanced Research Projects Agency on the road to create the Internet, through today's latest robotics and wearables innovations, the defense industry has been inextricably linked to the creation and adoption of new technologies.
Publication of Black Rod's memo would set off a new round of excavations that could shake the government to its very foundations over a little issue that has grown into a big crisis.
FRANCHITTI HANGS ON IN CLEVELAND: Dario Franchitti, running on fumes at the finish line, held off Memo Gidley to win the Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland for his first CART victory in 29 races over the past year and a half.
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief, and Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of the top military spy service, have urged the court to investigate the origins of the memo, which set off a political storm here since October, when it was first reported.
Today he recorded for himself a twenty-two-minute-long voice memo which started off as a reminder to go to the gym to exercise, but quickly devolved into a repetitive attack on his own inability to complete the simplest goals or sustain a relationship.
This same customer, according to the memo, is put off by the downscale packaging of mobile homes, even though such vehicles offer many of the features of the Marsupial.
Rove and his anti-Clinton memo was sloughed off at the time as the blathering of a washed out GOP top gun operative who narrowly escaped an indictment.
