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...attempt to portray the farm laborer as a "non-migrant" blunt the reality of both HEW's and the Department of Labor's findings that...
With the jury either out of the courtroom or beyond earshot, the judicial colloquy was astonishingly frank. Weary of the angry wrangles between the defense counsel and prosecutors, the blunt Sirica mused at one point: "Maybe I shouldn't say what is on my mind." But he did. Staring sternly at former Attorney General John Mitchell, a defendant, Sirica said of the Nixon aides who had plotted to bug Democratic National Headquarters at meetings in Mitchell's office: "It's too bad that Mr. Mitchell didn't say: 'Throw them out of here. Get them...
...press-conference quizzing of Nixon outraged the former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The President attempted to blunt this threat with his own flock of political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon's need to keep...
...away from the regular courses, the dull routine of scheduled periods of reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, etc. Essentially, he exploits that institutional tedium without ever questioning it. His creative geniuses would probably not have done so well if, in sitting at the same desk all day, every day, Miss Blunt would ask them to take out their pencils and paper and from 11:45 to 12:00 (right before lunch when they're all dying to go out and play) write a poem...
...Boring country," sniffed the blunt-spoken Kunst as he trudged north on State Highway 169 a bare 100 miles from Waseca. "Been through it before." He was mowing his way through the final week of his 13-country, 15,000-mile odyssey...