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...tergate defense team (Lawyers J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright) in preparing a constitutional defense that would prevent his having to go on trial any time soon. The White House lawyers were specifically asked to ex plore the possibility that the Vice President might adopt Nix on's own argument that a President (or Vice President) cannot be criminally prosecuted until after he has been impeached, convicted and removed from of fice by Congress. The chances of an Agnew impeachment are not very strong at present, but the prospect of an other client's demanding...
...functioning members, Mao and Premier Chou Enlai. This week's congress must fill those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt a new party constitution, one which no longer names Lin as Mao's successor. The congress must also provide some answers for crucial economic questions, such as how to increase food production, how much to stress industrialization at the expense of agriculture and to what degree China should open itself...
...homage to those who advance that creed through testimonials, tributes, fame and adulation. We scramble for tickets to fill the stadiums and fieldhouses of those institutions and organizations that adopt the win-at-all-cost philosophy...
...away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt Tuck's techniques and use them against the Democrats...
When Harvard finally decided to adopt the idea of continuing education it did so for reasons of its own. Among the Board of Directors of AHA in the 60s, there was a feeling that alumni would "appreciate" returning to Harvard for a week of classes. It was not until 1969, however, that a committee on Continuing Education was created to consider seriously the proposal...