Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important clout is in helping exercise the gatekeeper function of deciding who should get through to the Boss-and woe to anyone who tries to interfere with her preserve. Among those who did early in the Nixon Administration was White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, who tried but failed to proclaim his total control over the White House staff by having her office moved farther away from Nixon...
...never married, a regular on the party circuit says that "she has gone out with lots of fellows." Other evenings, including many Thanksgivings and Christmases, are spent at quiet family dinners with the Nixons. Yet all these bonds of closeness have still not completely solved the enigma of her boss. "After 22 years, I still don't know Richard Nixon," Rose recently confided to a friend. "I don't think anybody does...
HIDDEN behind Beame's election is a factor which is denied by his campaign aides--the resurgence of the boss-controlled Democratic organization. New York's Democratic leaders are an odd lot, and they don't agree ideologically--most of the district organizations are composed of moderate or conservative Democrats, although Matt Troy, the powerful Queens leader, was one of George McGovern's first backers in 1972--but they did unite on the Beame candidacy...
Nixon has been thinking about football a lot in the last year. And it's not just because he's looking for something to keep his mind off Watergate. He still remembers those two plays he sent to Dolphin coach Don Shula and Redskin boss George Allen, respectively, that bombed out when put into action. A lot of things have been working out like that for Nixon lately...
Indeed, Cronkite figures prominently in the Administration's current offensive. While Nixon has declined to name names, the White House Communications Director, Ken Clawson, seemed to be speaking for the boss when he attacked Cronkite's interview with deposed Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on the Evening News. "It was the biggest softball interview I've ever heard," Clawson complained. "He lobbed the ball slowly down the middle of the plate, stood there with a half-smile on his mustachioed face while Cox knocked every one over the fence. It was a case of the interviewee being...