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Politics: President Richard M. Nixon Newsletter for 2024-08-25 ( 3 items )  
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The American Vice President Premieres Tuesday, October 1, 2024 on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 23 -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2024: * * * How an Assassination and a Corruption Scandal Finally Forced America to Reckon with the Role of the Vice President and the Rules of Succession * * * The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to its current position of enormous political consequence. Focusing on the fraught period between 1 more PR

MIT Study Explains Why Laws are Written in an Incomprehensible Style (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The convoluted "legalese" used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in a style that makes them so impenetrable? MIT cognitive scientists believe they have uncovered the answer to that questi more PR

Rep. Gomez Introduces Resolution to Support Designation of Father's Day (10)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., introduced a resolution on June 12, 2024. The text of the resolution was released on Aug. 23. H. Res. 1295. A resolution expressing support for the designation of Sunday, June 16, 2024, as "Father's Day"; to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. The resolution is cosp more ST