Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining friends on McGovern's staff. McGovern confessed to one political ally that there were deep and bitter divisions among his advisers over the Eagleton matter. Nobody was enthusiastic about keeping Eagleton; the best that his defenders counseled was a wait-and-see approach. Press Secretary Dick Dougherty and South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Bill Dougherty both favored dumping Eagleton. Fred Dutton, author of Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970's and McGovern's most thoughtful political adviser, was adamantly anti-Eagleton. An almost Mafia-like atmosphere developed amid the rustic charms of McGovern...
...running with Richard Nixon." The same kind of reasoning was also applied by some White House aides to Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Other intriguing possibilities passed over by Nixon include New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has drifted toward the right recently and had apparently bridged the once bitter breach separating him and Nixon, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Interior Secretary Rogers Morton...
Heath accepted his resignation with genuine regret, describing it as a "bitter blow to us all." Maudling may yet return to the Cabinet once the Poulson investigation is completed. But the whole affair has probably put an end to whatever chance he still had of becoming Prime Minister. That is a pity, for, as the London Times noted, "as a businessman Mr. Maudling was often mistaken, but as a politician he had the useful habit of often being proved right...
...confronting George McGovern, or the latest gossip about who misbehaved after too many vodkas and tonic. But sooner or later, among the gatherings of the well-to-do and fashionable on the Massachusetts resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket,* the talk is likely to turn into bitter arguments over this summer's No. 1 question: Should the Federal Government move in and take charge of preserving the islands...
...Town club a year ago that Kris Kristofferson and Paul Anka heard Prine and decided that he was ready for national exposure. Their joint boost has brought him not only his recording contract but also a string of packed-house appearances at such folk meccas as Manhattan's Bitter End and Los Angeles' Troubadour...