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  The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Packwood Case a `Parable' For Society, Panelists Say   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Published On By AMANDA C. The case of Robert Packwood (R-Ore.), the senator accused of sexually harassing 20 women over the past 25 years, is a "parable" that demonstrates society's acceptance of sexual harassment, according to panelists at an Institute of Politics forum yesterday.
The Packwood case was the focus of discussion because it is historically unique and yet highly typical of the problems in a harassment situation, according to the panelists.
Packwood is the only senator ever to face charges of sexual harassment, but represents the imbalance of power common to harassment situations, said Langelan, who specializes in sexual harassment.
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=145083   (328 words)

  
  Bob Packwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert William "Bob" Packwood (born September 11, 1932) was a American politician from Oregon for the Republican Party.
Packwood was elected to the Senate in 1968, defeating Wayne Morse.
Senator Packwood's diary became a key issue: whether a diary can be subpoenaed, whether Packwood attempted to flmail his fellow senators with threats concerning the purported content of his diaries, and his blatant excisions from it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Packwood   (517 words)

  
 NewStandard: 7/23/96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Packwood was notified of the decision by the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section in a one-sentence letter sent to the office of his Washington lawyers.
Packwood said the investigation was the last unresolved issue from the events that led to his departure from the Senate last year amid charges of sexual misconduct involving 17 women.
Packwood from the Senate, was satisfied with the decision not to prosecute.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-96/07-23-96/a03wn025.htm   (224 words)

  
 Dear Bob, you should stand alone. (Senator Robert Packwood's pro-choice policy) (column) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
now Senator Packwood is here saying that it is intolerable talk, not to be distinguished from that of genocide-for-Jews talk, to say that abortion results in the death of innocent people.
Senator Packwood, like so many others who favor the right to abortion, is himself flagrantly guilty of what he charges the opposition with: failing to understand the other side's arguments.
Senator Packwood is engaged in the disreputable exercise of plemical sleight of hand--by suggesting that the kind of people who oppose abortion are the same kind of people who believe in genocide.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-4502652.html   (734 words)

  
 The Packwood diaries
Packwood tape recorded first-person accounts of even the most humdrum events in his daily life, including his financial dealings and sexual exploits, and kept a female employee busy transcribing them for nearly 20 years.
One of the charges against Packwood was that he deliberately altered the transcripts after the diaries were subpoenaed by the committee.
Packwood asked the lobbyist to put his estranged wife Georgie on retainer at $7,500 a year in order to cut his prospective alimony payments.
www.wsws.org /public_html/prioriss/iwb9-25/packwood.htm   (504 words)

  
 Ancestors of Milton Lafayette "Lafe" Packwood
M. Packwood, white, male, age 29, head of household, married, farmer, born in Iowa, parents both born in Indiana.
Milton Packwood, age 34, male, married, occupation farmer, born Des Moines County, Iowa.
Robert L. Packwood, age 16, male, born in Des Moines County, Iowa.
www.brumm.com /familytrees/2308.htm   (423 words)

  
 CNN - Justice Department closes case on Packwood - July 23, 1996
Packwood resigned in September 1995 after the Senate Ethics Committee unanimously recommended expelling him and released more than 10,000 pages of his diary to support its decision.
(381K AIFF or WAV sound) Packwood, an Oregon Republican, had been accused of sexual misconduct with 17 women, trying to use his influence to obtain a job for his wife, and altering the diary to hide his misconduct.
Packwood now has a business and political consulting firm in Washington, D.C. He said the investigation was the last unresolved issue from the events leading to his resignation.
www.cnn.com /US/9607/23/packwood   (246 words)

  
 Little Cayuse Ranch: Our History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Bob reported back to "Packwood on the March", regarding his visit to Seattle and explained to the committee how inspirational it was to learn the great strides which have been made in communities where there was present the most undemocratic environment that community study could work under.
At that meeting in Packwood, Charlie Goe and Bill Tully commented that they felt Packwood's community study was a worthwhile venture and a lot of good was to be derived.
The initial offshoot of that passion was the establishment of a bookmobile that came to Packwood.
www.horsebackrides.com /OurHistory.htm   (1343 words)

  
 Nader.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Robert Packwood is a rare kind of Republican.
With this maneuver, Packwood signaled his willingness to have the House of Representatives accept this giveaway of the public's broadcasting rights without a House hearing and markup.
Packwood maintains that new communications technology—cable, satellite, video disc and so on—makes unnecessary the old governmental rules for broadcasting.
www.nader.org /template.php?/archives/1095-Packwood-Maneuver.html   (687 words)

  
 Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Robert Packwood went on to use it in his 1968 campaign against the incumbent senator.
Packwood declared that Morse’s opposition to continued funding of military action in Vietnam was reckless, because such restriction would cut off military support for soldiers without ending the war or finding a solution to the conflict.
Packwood also took Senator Morse to task for letting his opposition to the war sidetrack him from the real concerns of citizens — timber exports, how much they got back in taxes, and other “bread and butter” issues.
www.uoregon.edu /~morse/vietnam.html   (515 words)

  
 Daily News Record : Packwood: tax reform still alive due to TRAC. (Robert Packwood; Tax Reform Action Coalition) @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Packwood: Tax Reform Still Alive Due to TRAC WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The retail, apparel and textile industries were credited Monday with keeping tax reform alive, but were warned by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood (R., Ore.) to continue aggressive lobbying to insure tax reform passage.
Packwood appeared before the Tax Reform Action Coalition (TRAC), which is composed of such industry heavyweights as Federated Department Stores, Inc.; General Mills Inc.; K mart Corp.; the American Apparel Manufacturers Association, and the American Retail Federation.
Packwood said the tax rate schedule proposed by his committee--15, 27 and 33 per cent--is a "trinity" that he is committed to.
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 Encyclopedia: Bob Packwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government.
Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is best known as a former Republican United States Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Kansas.
In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group organized to elect or defeat government officials in order to promote legislation, often supporting the groups special interests.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bob-Packwood   (1263 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Packwood Vs. Packwood -- Nov. 15, 1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Packwood claimed that he was virtually broke and proposed monthly payments of $500.
Packwood's former wife told the Post that she had no reason to think that Packwood had offered his friends any political favors in exchange for job offers -- a quid pro quo that could be illegal.
Packwood's unfortunate pattern is that each attempt he makes to preserve his privacy seems to turn up the wattage of scrutiny even further.
time-proxy.yaga.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,979589,00.html   (1140 words)

  
 The New Republic : Greasy spoons. (Notebook - Sens. Bentsen and Packwood run 'breakfast club' for lobbyists) @ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Diner, under the direction of chef Robert Packwood, opened several years ago when Packwood was also serving as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Packwood ran an exclusive joint, opening his door only to Washington lobbyists who wanted favors from his committee.
Packwood liked it because he collected $5,000 a plate, and only had to sling the hash once a month.
static.elibrary.com /t/thenewrepublic/february231987/greasyspoonsnotebooksensbentsenandpackwoodrunbreak/index.html   (225 words)

  
 CongressionalBadBoys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Honorable Robert Packwood, champion of abortion rights, friend of women's groups, resigned from the Senate in September 1995.
Packwood, in a rambling speech before the Senate, glossed over his behavior, and said only that resignation was "the honorable thing" to do.
Packwood is a member of the Congressional Sexual Harassment Caucus.
www.congressionalbadboys.com /Packwood.htm   (261 words)

  
 Crawford
Dolly PACKWOOD was born in Mar 1892 in Texas.
Robert PACKWOOD was born in May 1888 in Texas.
Robert Alton BRUNDRETT and Genevive PARKER were married on 12 Jun 1934 in Beeville, Bee County, Texas.
www.crawfordclan.org /b90.htm   (536 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Tax Reform Veterans See Hurdles Ahead
Former representative Dan Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat, who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee during the battle over the 1986 tax reform act, and former senator Robert Packwood, a Republican from Oregon, who headed the Senate Finance Committee, disagree on the ultimate prospects.
Both Rostenkowski and Packwood left Congress in the 1990s under a cloud, with Rostenkowski under indictment for corruption charges and Packwood immersed in a sex scandal.
Packwood is now a lobbyist in Washington, and Rostenkowski is a corporate consultant.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8766-2004Nov23?language=printer   (1033 words)

  
 Biography of William Shakespeare
Part at least of Richard Shakespeare’s land at Snitterfield was held from Robert Arden of Wilmcote in the adjoining parish of Aston Cantlow, a cadet of the Ardens of Parkhall, who counted amongst the leading gentry of Warwickshire.
Robert Arden married his second wife, Agnes Hill, formerly Webbe, in 1548, and had then no less than.
Only two of the pieces included herein are certainly Shakespeare’s, and although others may quite possibly be his, the authority of the volume is destroyed by the fact that some of its contents are without doubt the work of Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Richard Barnfield and Bartholomew Griffin.
www.shakespeare-literature.com /l_biography.html   (15100 words)

  
 Document 20
Packwood spoke last night to the Abortion Rights Alliance of Missouri at its annual meeting.
Packwood said the abortion amendment was "only the tip of the iceberg." He said anti-abortion forces were marshalling strength to seek congressional action on a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortions, thus overturning the 1973 Supreme Court ruling.
Packwood described anti-abortion forces as "zealots" seeking to impose their beliefs on other people.
pages.slu.edu /student/poellja/MediaHaltHEWFunds.html   (421 words)

  
 Portland State Office of Marketing & Communications | News Release Archive
Former U.S. Senators Robert Packwood (OR) and Paul Simon (IL) will discuss views on the "Advice and Consent" role of the U.S. Senate to the President, in separate presentations at Portland State.
Packwood: Smith Memorial Student Union Room 236 (1825 SW Broadway) Sen.
Simon and Packwood are in Portland as part of the Advice and Consent Project taking place at Lewis & Clark College October 31 - November 8, and funded by the Arkay Foundation and the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association.
www.marketing.pdx.edu /news.php?id=370   (222 words)

  
 Ladies and Gentleman
The committee of which I am a member carefully reviewed the evidence and found substantial credible evidence that Senator Packwood 's conduct was an abuse of his position, an abuse of power and that he brought dishonor upon the U.S. Senate.
Senator Packwood has shown a flagrant disregard for the victims, the Senate, and for the citizens of Oregon.
This is a sad day for the Senate, but I am glad that Senator Packwood has written his own final chapter and ended his Senate career with dignity.
www.usefulidiots.com /Packwood.htm   (1381 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Vietnam Isn't Issue in Oregon -- Wayne Morse Is   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Packwood has recently emerged as a moderate dove, and while his anti-war credentials don't compare to Morse's that fact isn't enough to build a campaign on.
Packwood is everything that Morse isn't: he's predictable, pragmatic, somewhat superficial, and in supreme contrast to Morse, bland.
Packwood is a progressive Republican, somewhat along the lines of Illinois' Senator Percy.
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=107409   (446 words)

  
 THE TRIALS OF BOB PACKWOOD - New York Times
I am about the same age as Robert Packwood, have worked in a medium-size manufacturing company for 32 years and have been C.E.O. for about half of that time ("The Trials of Bob Packwood," by Trip Gabriel, Aug. 29).
I am outraged by any suggestion that Packwood is a victim of changing mores.
The crude and insensitive behavior widely attributed to him was as unacceptable 30 years ago as it is today.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEED81E39F935A1575AC0A965958260   (81 words)

  
 Packwood Vs. Packwood | TIME
Last week Packwood denied ever wrongfully soliciting work for his ex- wife, but the six members of the bipartisan committee seem bent on investigating and reaching their own conclusion.
Packwood claimed that he was virtually broke and proposed monthly payments of $500.
Robert Baer sees many glaring holes in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's claims to be al-Qaeda's mastermind behind such terror acts as 9/11 and the murder of Daniel Pearl
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,979589,00.html   (722 words)

  
 Salon | Letters to the editor
For example, Packwood was not hounded for sex but sexual harassment -- his antics were not in any way consensual.
Packwood was also guilty of falsifying actual evidence in the form of his forged diaries.
Second, I long supported Packwood, despite his being a Republican, because he was a staunch and unwavering voice for choice.
www.salon.com /letters/1999/01/04letters2.html   (1021 words)

  
 The Arab American Institute
Among them are Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii and Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin who led the fight for the Israeli loan guarantees last fall, and Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon.
Packwood has been a key actor in blocking arms sales to Arab States, including co-authorship of a 1987 letter to then-Secretary of State Schultz opposing arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Packwood is also one of the prime movers in maintaining consistently high levels of economic and military aid to Israel.
www.aaiusa.org /washington-watch/1043/w032392   (1322 words)

  
 ROBERT ANTON WILSON BOOKS, ILLUMINATI
Whatever the label and rank, Robert Anton Wilson is undeniably one of the foundations of 21th Century Western counterculture.
Trilogy, to fire-breathing senior citizen and Taoist sage, Robert Anton Wilson is a man who has passed through the trials of chapel perilous and found himself on wondrous ground where nothing is for certain, even the treasured companionship of a six-foot-tall white rabbit.
Beaming with insight, frustration, compassion, and unshakable optimism, the ever-open eye of Robert Anton Wilson penetrates human illusions exposing the mathematical probabilities and spooky synchronicities of the 8 dimensions of his Universe.
www.anathemabooks.com /raw.shtml   (979 words)

  
 Packwood : Public & Private Life from Acclaim by tommytyson
Packwood chronicles the life and career of an enigmatic man who is both a brilliant strategist and an on-the-ropes politician.
Drawing on interviews with Packwood's friends, relatives and accusers but not with Packwood himself, Kirchmeier portrays a cynical, ambitious would-be president who, by this account, saw the feminist movement merely as a device to advance his own career.
Packwood was a champion of women's rights and the first sponsor of a congressional bill allowing women the right to abortion.
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 1 March 2006 William Newby Family History
Robert S. Packwood is recorded in the 1920 Census on Written Page 5A, Printed Page 238A, Supervisor District #3, Enumerator District #183, Line Number 35, Dwelling Number 98, Family Number 98, living on a farm in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana.
Robert L. Packwood, son of Robert and Blanche Jewell (Winslow) Packwood, is recorded in the 1920 Census on Written Page 5A, Printed Page 238A, Supervisor District #3, Enumerator District #183, Line Number 37, Dwelling Number 98, Family Number 98, living on a farm in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana.
Robert L. Packwood, son of Robert and Blanche Jewell (Winslow) Packwood, is recorded in the 1930 Census on Written Page 4B, Printed Page 251B, Supervisor District #13, Enumerator District #88-26, Line Number 77, Dwelling Number 94, Family Number 97, living on a farm in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana, living with his grandparents.
homepage.mac.com /hnewby/NewbyDescendants/WilliamNewbyFamilyHistory/fh01/fh01_388.htm   (922 words)

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