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...kiddo, that was because of his war crimes. But let me tell you about the Secretary of Transportation. Remember Claude Brinegar...
Right, but they needed a Catholic, so Fred Malek, who surfaced here as a fellow at the Institute of Politics in '75, got all enthused about Claude Brinegar, the president of Union Oil of California, young and Catholic and from the West Coast, Malek said. According to Haldeman, Nixon wasn't so sure. "His name doesn't sound Catholic to me." But Malek assured him that "he's Irish too." So after two weeks in office, Brinegar, the Irish Catholic appointee, revealed that he was a German Presbyterian...
TRANSPORTATION, three-John Volpe, Claude Brinegar, William Coleman...
With losses deepening, fuel costs climbing and credit lines drying up, Pan American World Airways sent out a Mayday call of distress to the U.S. Government, pleading for emergency subsidies of $10.1 million a month. Last week Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brinegar said that "President Ford has concluded that it is not now fair to the nation's taxpayers to ask them to support our U.S. international flag carriers with direct cash subsidy payments." With that, the fate of the nation's senior overseas airline fell into the hands of the banks and insurance companies, to which...
...whether the company should get a permanent subsidy. If Pan Am now takes painful cost-cutting steps, particularly by eliminating some lightly traveled routes to Latin America, Africa and Asia, its creditors may be disposed to reduce the $300 million asset limit below which credit would halt. According to Brinegar, the Administration will ask the creditors to be lenient with...