Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being one of Nixon's most faithful liege men. As presidential counsel, he worked out the legal basis for Nixon's impoundment of funds, broad use of pocket vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite...
Obviously enjoying his role as tour director, the Soviet boss jokingly pretended to the newsmen that silk curtains down one wall were covers for his bookshelves. Then he parted the curtains to reveal double glass doors leading to a private hideaway that included a TV set, a refrigerator and a medicine cabinet. "This is where I usually eat," he said. "You see this little couch in there? If I get a chance, maybe I can get a nap there." Brezhnev added that he spent "a terrifying amount of time" in his offices-one in the Kremlin, another on the opposite...
...keep pinching myself and asking, 'Is this any less role playing than what I've been doing?' " Coleman next moved to Boston and found a job as a dishwasher in a cafeteria. Before the first hour was up, his boss slipped two dollars into his hand and said simply, "You won't do." Coleman asked why but was given no reason. "It was amazingly demoralizing," he says. "I'd never been fired and I'd never been unemployed. For three days I walked the streets. Though I had a bank account...
From within the White House came the word: "The boss says we have turned the corner on Watergate...
...secretary at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Though she displayed what Senator Joseph Montoya called a "hazy memory," she recalled that she had typed "maybe eight" Democratic telephone conversations that had been tapped at Watergate. When the plot was discovered, she helped her boss shred any paper with his handwriting on it. Then she fed her own notebook into the machine. But she testified that she could not remember ever saying that she had committed perjury for Liddy, as charged by two depositions in the Democrats' suit...