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...program spans 160 years of compositions by Harvard students and alumni, from the 19th century work of John K. Paine to a piece by Gregory R. Bliss, fourth-year graduate student in Music...
...federal conflict-of-interest investigation. Though he had not been visible in the Nixon entourage for years, all at once he was installed in an office five floors above the G.O.P. Com mittee headquarters. Calls from the White House came in on Chotiner's phone, not Bliss's. Unwilling to continue as a figurehead, Bliss chose to return to his Akron insurance business...
...Showboat. During the 1966 cam paign, when Nixon was stumping the country for G.O.P. candidates, coolness developed between them. Nixon wanted the National Committee to furnish a private jet plane. Bliss demurred. If one potential presidential candidate got that kind of help, he argued, they all should...
Nixon did not take the rebuff well. Yet last summer, the National Committee, presumably with Nixon's blessing, re-elected Bliss and gave him a $10,000 raise in salary...
...immediately after the election that Nixon aides passed word that the President-elect wanted a new man. The ostensible reason: the party needed an articulate, attractive spokesman to project vitality. Blind in one eye, squat of build, chubby of face and soporific as a speaker, Bliss, at 61, could hardly meet that requirement. Nonetheless, the rationale for wanting him out was somewhat specious. National chairmen rarely serve as showboats, and when a party controls the White House, its public image lives there. After Republican Governors and national committeemen protested, Nixon eased off. In January, he invited Bliss...