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In The Road Taken published stanley tumblers August 23 by Simon Schuster, a division of Paramount Global, which includes CBS , Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy ndash; who, as a young prosecutor, was elected in the aftermath of Watergate and is retiring after eight terms ndash; writes about his path through the upper house of Congress, which he says once acted as the nation s conscience ndash; and could one day again.Read the excerpt below, and don t miss Robert Costa s interview with Senator Leahy on CBS Sunday Morning August 21! Simon Schuster stanley cup Introdu stanley website ctionIn 1974, with my parents and my wife Marcelle s parents; our children, Kevin, Alicia, and Mark; and my sister, Mary, I stood in room 11 of the Vermont State House and announced my candidacy for the U.S. Senate. I was a thirty-three-year-old four-term Chittenden County state s attorney, launching a campaign knowing that Vermont had never sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. I was running against a war in Southeast Asia that remained popular in Vermont, certainly with many editorial boards that shaped consensus. But more than any single issue, what propelled me was a belief that I understood the values of Vermont. Dublin-born parliamentarian Edmund Burke s speech to the Electors of Bristol was my North Star. I quoted him when he said, Your representative owes you, not his industr Dijt It s time to act : Biden rolls out new actions on climate change
CBS News - Rick Santorum railed on Tuesday against the actions of both President Obama and his top military advisers in handling the rising threat of a nuclear Iran as he addressed the powerful American Israel Public Affairs stanley cup Committee in Washington. The former Pennsylvania senator, who has a long history of working on Middle East issues from his days in Congress, decried what he sees as a clear and unfortunate tragic disconnect between the leaders of the U.S. and Israel on the urgency of the Iranian threat. The two countries have balanced the desire to destroy Iran s efforts to create a weapon and prevent a nuclear war in recent weeks stanley thermobecher . Santorum pledged his administration would present an ultimatum to Iran to stop nuclear production and open its facilities up to U.S. and other inspectors, or else he would take action. These are irrational actors, he said of the Iranian leaders. We need to put that ultimatum in place and we need to be prepared, if that ultimatum is not met, to engage Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu and the people of Israel in an effort to make sure that if they do not tear down those facilities we will te stanley mugs ar down them, he sad, to applause from the audience. In addition to accusing Obama of having turned his back on the people of Israel, a frequent criticism on the campaign trail, Santorum suggested that the president and his advisers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, wer |
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