Word: birthdays
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...frantic effort seemed to buoy law-enforcement officials and the Hearst family. Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said...
...Some investigators believe that a key to prompt turnover of the evidence held by Jaworski lies in making the necessary legal moves while Sirica, who has vividly demonstrated his desire to expose the full Watergate truth, is still chief judge. He must step down on March 19, his 70th birthday, becoming a senior judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Then he would no longer automatically handle committee motions to acquire evidence...
...still-gathering clouds of Watergate seemed to be never too far from the President's mind even as he plunged into a round of activities. He astonished a small crowd assembled at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate Lincoln's 165th birthday by appearing there without notice to speak (see The Presidency/Hugh Sidey, page...
...President was in a lively mood at a party celebrating the 90th birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack...
Richard Nixon has raised "getting right with Lincoln" to new heights. Last week he went down to the Memorial on Lincoln's Birthday and drew the Lincoln mantle round his shoulders. "It is quite clear," said Nixon, "that no President in history has been more vilified or was more vilified during the time he was President than Lincoln ... Lincoln had that great strength of character never to display [hurt], always to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might...