Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Policy Committee. When spot shortages of gasoline began to appear in the late spring, he decided that some allocation of petroleum products was necessary and prepared a voluntary system to accomplish it. The morning he was scheduled to present it to Congress, DiBona appealed to Simon's boss, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, to block the testimony. Shultz refused to interfere and the program was adopted...
...hardly the sort who normally take well to lecturings from their juniors, but they were very interested in hearing this one. The "youngest Republican," as he cheerfully proclaims himself, was Big John Connally-five months young as a registered member of the G.O.P., but about as politically junior as Boss Tweed in his heyday. The audience loved...
...Agnew had lambasted the leaks, demanding that Richardson locate the culprits in his department and dismiss them. Richardson said that he could not trace the leaks; Agnew's staff felt that he would not. When Peter Malatesta, one of Agnew's aides, was asked what was new with his boss, Malatesta returned: "Don't ask me ? ask the Justice Department. That's where the leaks come from. I've done my Christmas shopping for the Attorney General. I'm getting him two cases of Zerex stop-leaks...
...Misgivings. Much of the questioning centered on Hunt's relationship with his original White House sponsor and boss, former Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Hunt contended that his memory had been refreshed in private questioning by the committee staff and so he could now testify that in January 1972, Colson had indicated an awareness of the political intelligence plan that led to the Watergate breakin...
...newspaper man slept with the Senator's wife. The political boss torpedoed the senator's presidential bid. Years ago the Senator had triumphed over the local pols, though he never managed to beat the regulars at the national level. The action is the standard sort in political novels, and the characters are of the equally standard sort...