Word: beckers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tapes Deal. Last week Ford gave a delicate job to a longtime friend, Benton L. Becker, a Washington criminal lawyer. The President assigned him to travel to San Clemente last Thursday and show Nixon a preliminary draft of a Ford statement granting a pardon...
...Becker was also assigned to complete the negotiations between the White House and Nixon for an agreement granting the Watergate prosecutors?and presumably other lawyers?the right to examine his tapes and presidential papers for use in future cases. White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt had insisted that these records belong to Nixon and proposed shipping them forthwith to San Clemente; that prompted Ford to fire Buzhardt...
Voters who admire both men are in a quandary. Says J. Bill Becker, president of the state AFL-CIO: "At least we won't be choosing between the lesser of two evils, but rather choosing the better of the best...
Script C: the classic male-menopause novel. Hunkering down in a country setting very much like Becker's own western Massachusetts, Doc Beer becomes the energy-and concern-presence of the local hospital. But at 46 he feels trapped between needs and duties, lusts and considerations, shrinking ideals and lengthening fatigue...
...Benny Beer is a combatant whose dog tags do less to establish his identity than to signal the fact that he is in a war to the death. As a 20th century man, Beer, even in peace, is a sort of P.O.W. Even at home he is a refugee Becker is given to spells of rhetoric and eccentric time skips. But in the end this very raggedness qualifies as a kind of verisimilitude...