In an episode that became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," President Nixon fired Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, both of whom refused to follow the President's order to dismiss Watergate special prosecutor _____
a. Robert H. Bork
b. William H. Rehnquist
c. Fred Dalton Thompson
d. Archibald Cox
D
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What are the long-term problems facing the program, and what solutions offer the greatest chance of solving them? What will be an ideal response?
What is the third step of developing an interview?
a) selecting a sample b) developing the questions c) training the interviewers d) stating the purpose of the interview
What is meant when politicians use the expression "politics stop at the water's edge"?
A)The partisanship that characterizes domestic policy is suspended in the foreign policy arena. B)The politicization that characterizes the domestic policy bureaucracy does not apply to agencies involved in foreign policy. C)The imbalance of power that exists between the president and Congress in domestic policy does not apply to questions of foreign policy. D)The effects of globalization in foreign policy do not apply to domestic policy questions.
The Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. Congress did not ratify, focused on which of the following?
a. Alternative energy b. Nuclear weapons proliferation c. Population control d. Global warming