Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Set against this national gloom and concern, prospective candidates are rising or falling on the extent to which they are seen as strong leaders. The survey found Kennedy to have the highest leadership rating of all the presidential prospects. Fifty-eight percent said they felt Kennedy was "very strong" as...
(10 of 10) pitting two forceful and persuasive politicians against each other. Neither of them is an ideologue, but they offer a clear difference in philosophy. "For years I've thought we'd run against each other," he says. "I didn't know when or why, but I've just...
Most of the Government's case rested on information provided by Jake Jacobsen, a Texas lawyer who was once an aide in the Johnson White House and who had long been Connally's friend. Jacobsen faced numerous charges of fraud and perjury. In plea bargaining, these charges were...
The case against Connally, however, depended on Jacobsen's word. Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, hired by Connally for a reported $250,000 fee, hammered away at Jacobsen's testimony. In a number of instances, he forced the central prosecution witness to back down and acknowledge that he...
Two new witnesses turned up last week. One, a show business public relations agent named Barry Landau, provided the first corroboration of part of the story - though not the crucial part - told by lawyers for Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two own ers of the celebrated disco. They are under...