Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated that the President "said that he had listened to only two of the controversial tapes," whereas information given to the Senate committee by Presidential Assistant Steve Bull indicated that he had listened to at least eight or ten tapes. There was a picture of Bull captioned "Contradicting the Boss...
...little afternoon tennis. He asked his press secretary to join him. "Fine," replied Marsh Thomson, "but I'll have to go home and get my gear." Lugging his bag, Thomson arrived back at the Executive Office Building just before 4 o'clock only to find his boss unexpectedly engaged. In the corridor outside Richard Nixon's first-floor hideaway office, he recognized two of the Secret Servicemen assigned to Agnew. The President and the Vice President were having a talk. The two men met alone for an hour and a half and emerged only after agreeing...
...embarrassment to the White House. He knows that he has all but lost his chance to be the Republican candidate in 1976. And he must be tired of being humiliated by the President. Back in 1971, Agnew felt so strongly about his poor relationship with his remote boss and about the snubs of Ehrlichman and Haldeman, that he talked privately to friends about resigning then and there. The reason he stayed on is that he was convinced it would appear he was quitting so as not to risk the humiliation of having Connally replace him on the ticket...
...bald, cautious and professorial. He has earned no great prestige within his profession or even within his specialty. He is so nondescript, in fact, that his rather solemn-minded boss, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, seems positively charismatic by comparison. But if Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper (pronounced koy-per), 38, does not look like a tiger, he is beginning to act like one. In an Administration that has become all too cozy with big businessmen seeking influence, the chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division has kept up steady pressure against monopolistic practices−including some...
...pursuit of adolescent sex as a device to pace the film and develop his characters. The dolt must separate from his high school sweetheart, the captain of the cheerleaders. He discovers that he can't. The one who is reticent about leaving home spends the night pursuing a boss blond, more dream than dreamy, who is tooling in a white T-bird. Milner, a lonely fellow at heart, wastes half the evening trying to get rid of a junior high school girl he has picked up by mistake, and spends the other half learning to appreciate her company. The jerk...