title: Lee Edwards
Family Fairness
Edwin Meese
Arnold Burns
Mark Levin
James C. McKay
Meese Report
Liam Burns (NUS president)
UC Berkeley School of Law
Martin Balsam
sentences: Lee Edwards (born 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is a distinguished fellow in conservative thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
 A historian of the conservative movement in America, and he has published more than 15 books, including biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Senator Barry Goldwater, Attorney General Edwin Meese III and William F. Buckley, Jr. He is currently the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Family Fairness was a program run by the Immigration and Naturalization Services in the United States from late 1987 to late 1990.
 The initial version was introduced in late 1987 by then INS Commissioner Alan C. Nelson, working under then Attorney General Edwin Meese and then President Ronald Reagan.
 An expansion of the program was introduced in early 1990 by INS Commissioner Gene McNary working under then Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and then United States President George H. W. Bush.
 The program was created through executive action, in order to meet the problem of "split-eligibility" families created by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, pending legislation that would address the issue.
 The Immigration Act of 1990 replaced it with a legislatively sanctioned Family Unity Program, that continues to be in force today.
Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980) and the Reagan White House (1981–1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988).
Arnold Irwin Burns (April 14, 1930 – October 1, 2013) was an American lawyer.
 He served as the United States Deputy Attorney General from 1986 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese.
 In March 1988, Burns, together with the head of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division William Weld and four aides, resigned from office in protest of what they viewed as improper conduct by Attorney General Meese, including personal financial indiscretions.
 In July 1988, Burns and Weld jointly testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a potential prosecution of Meese following an investigation by a special prosecutor, who had declined to file charges.
 Meese resigned from office later in July 1988, shortly after Burns and Weld appeared before Congress.
Mark Reed Levin ( ; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality.
 He is the host of syndicated radio show "The Mark Levin Show".
 Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese.
 He is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, has authored seven books, and contributes commentary to various media outlets such as "National Review Online".
 On September 1, 2015, Levin was named Editor-in-Chief of Conservative Review.
James "Jim" McKay (February 24, 1917 – November 23, 2015) was an American trial lawyer.
 As Independent Counsel from 1987 to 1990, he investigated allegations of illicit lobbying and conflicts of interest during the administration of Ronald Reagan, including investigation of then-sitting U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese.
The final report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (usually referred to as (the) Meese Report, for U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese) is the result of a comprehensive investigation into pornography ordered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
 It was published in July 1986 and contains 1,960 pages.
Liam Burns was President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom.
 He took office on 1 July 2011, succeeding outgoing President Aaron Porter.
 Burns stood for NUS President as an independent but is a member of the Labour Party.
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, commonly referred to as Berkeley Law and Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley.
 Berkeley Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the nation.
 The law school has produced leaders in law, government, and society, including Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, Secretary of State of the United States Dean Rusk, Attorney General of the United States Edwin Meese, United States Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Federal Reserve G. William Miller, Solicitor General of the United States Theodore Olson, and lead litigator of the "Korematsu v. United States" civil rights case, Dale Minami.
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor.
 He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Juror #1 in "12 Angry Men" (1957), and Mr. Green in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979–1983).

Question: Question: After succeeding Arnold Burns, how long did Edwin Meese remain in office? 

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 Lee Edwards (born 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is a distinguished fellow in conservative thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
 A historian of the conservative movement in America, and he has published more than 15 books, including biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Senator Barry Goldwater, Attorney General Edwin Meese III and William F. Buckley, Jr. He is currently the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 

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 Family Fairness was a program run by the Immigration and Naturalization Services in the United States from late 1987 to late 1990.
 The initial version was introduced in late 1987 by then INS Commissioner Alan C. Nelson, working under then Attorney General Edwin Meese and then President Ronald Reagan.
 An expansion of the program was introduced in early 1990 by INS Commissioner Gene McNary working under then Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and then United States President George H. W. Bush.
 The program was created through executive action, in order to meet the problem of "split-eligibility" families created by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, pending legislation that would address the issue.
 The Immigration Act of 1990 replaced it with a legislatively sanctioned Family Unity Program, that continues to be in force today. 

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 Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980) and the Reagan White House (1981–1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988). 

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 Arnold Irwin Burns (April 14, 1930 – October 1, 2013) was an American lawyer.
 He served as the United States Deputy Attorney General from 1986 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese.
 In March 1988, Burns, together with the head of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division William Weld and four aides, resigned from office in protest of what they viewed as improper conduct by Attorney General Meese, including personal financial indiscretions.
 In July 1988, Burns and Weld jointly testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a potential prosecution of Meese following an investigation by a special prosecutor, who had declined to file charges.
 Meese resigned from office later in July 1988, shortly after Burns and Weld appeared before Congress. 

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 James "Jim" McKay (February 24, 1917 – November 23, 2015) was an American trial lawyer.
 As Independent Counsel from 1987 to 1990, he investigated allegations of illicit lobbying and conflicts of interest during the administration of Ronald Reagan, including investigation of then-sitting U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese. 

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 The final report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (usually referred to as (the) Meese Report, for U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese) is the result of a comprehensive investigation into pornography ordered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
 It was published in July 1986 and contains 1,960 pages. 

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 Liam Burns was President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom.
 He took office on 1 July 2011, succeeding outgoing President Aaron Porter.
 Burns stood for NUS President as an independent but is a member of the Labour Party. 

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 Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor.
 He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Juror #1 in "12 Angry Men" (1957), and Mr. Green in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979–1983). 

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Answer: 1985–1988