Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were not really at issue. Neither was "the book's right to live," as Harper Executive Committee Chairman Cass Canfield put it. The central point of the dispute was whether the author had violated an agreement guaranteeing the Kennedys' control over Manchester's final account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Whether or not the Kennedys should have demanded such an agreement was also beside the point. "Manchester made a promise," said Jackie's attorney, former Federal Judge Simon Rifkind, "and now has not lived up to his part of the bargain...
...account of how President Kennedy personally selected the pink wool suit that Jackie wore that day in Dallas because, according to the New York Daily News, he wanted to make sure she would show up "the cheap Texas broads...
...account of a dispute over where Kennedy should be buried. Most of the family favored his native Massachusetts, but after Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara entered an eloquent plea for Arlington, Jackie chose that site...
...Powell's Bahamian retreat on South Bimini Island. Subpoenaed to appear this week is Powell's estranged wife, Yvette, who is on his payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, though she lives in Puerto Rico. Her checks had been going into Powell's personal account until last month, when she asked that they be sent...
...only three of them - and that they were to Miami for "sightseeing and shopping." Russell Derrickson, staff director of Powell's panel, denied making any of the 26 trips charged to his name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain why his expense account showed him in Los Angeles on a day that travel credit vouchers recorded him as flying from New York to Miami. Evidence indicated, said Hays, that Powell's older son, Adam III, 20, a student at M.I.T., and two friends used committee-vouched tickets for a trip from...