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...37th President, regardless of his party, could hardly have expected the initial bliss that most new White House tenants enjoy on Capitol Hill. The political atmosphere has been too roiled, public opinion too combustible. Partly for this reason, partly because he fell so far short of a popular majority, Nixon will probably attempt to give a non-partisan patina to his Administration. Otherwise he cannot hope to rally the public support and Democratic cooperation he will need...
...waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign currency in her husband's trousers...
...Elusive Bliss. Despite such symptoms of strain, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, insisted last week: "The economy is moving into improved balance." Yet in almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
There were rebuffs, notably from Richard Nixon and G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, on Rocky's suggestion that he and Nixon 1) meet in a debate, and 2) sponsor a state-by-state voter poll to test their Electoral College strength. The setbacks did not shake Rocky. He announced on ABC-TV that he had "decided to go ahead anyhow in undertaking a national survey to break out individual states and key cities," even though it might cost him, according to an earlier-and very conservative-estimate, an average of at least $5,000 a state. Such a figure...