Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's own flawed self-defense. "Before this," he told the Senate leaders, "we had the case won." "Where?" asked the incredulous Scott. "I mean as a lawyer," St. Clair replied. To a man, the Senate leaders-Scott, Griffin, Texas' John Tower, Utah's Wallace Bennett and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton-were stunned by the evidence of Nixon's deception. "We were shaken," said one of them. "It's the worst thing...
Messed Tapes. For almost a year after the taping was disclosed in July 1973, the tapes were guarded by Retired Major General John C. Bennett, who resigned his White House job last April to become a vice president of a pipeline company in Alaska. Says Bennett: "It is hard to believe that there was tampering with the White House tapes, yet it is just as hard to believe that tampering did not occur. I have a feeling that, somewhere along the line, someone messed with those tapes...
Connally has hired Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, who can help him beat the charges if anyone can. Why Connally allowed himself to get into this scrape is another question. Though a "poor millionaire" (less than $10 million in assets) by inflated Texas standards, he hardly needed to risk his reputation and presidential ambitions for $10,000. Says a Washington politician: "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe...
...early 1962, negotiations between Harvard and what was then the Massachusetts Transit Authority (MTA) over the possible sale of the what was then called the Bennett St. MTA Yards were finally getting serious after at least five years of dickering and half-hearted discussion. The general manager of MTA indicated that he would recommend that its Board of Directors sell the 12-acre site and President Pusey made official Harvard's offer to purchase the land at its market value plus an additional $1 million...
...after a headline reading, "Pusey, MTA Officials Boost Hopes/For Purchase of Bennett St. Yards," appeared in The Crimson, an outcry erupted from Cambridge City officials and residents. Former City Councilor Daniel J. Hayes, blasting Harvard's "land-grab plan," called on the city council to have the land declared an open blighted area under the Urban Renewal Act and to purchase it to ensure that Harvard could...