Word: butterfields
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...spot at the FAA is Administrator Alexander P. Butterfield, 48, a former Air Force colonel and F-111 pilot who joined President Richard Nixon's staff as an aide in 1969. In July 1973, Butterfield gave Watergate an entirely new dimension by disclosing the existence of the presidential tapes to members of Senator Sam Ervin's committee and the world. By that time, Butterfield had been head of the FAA for four months, a job he got as a reward for his efficient service in the White House (he was never brushed by Watergate), and was already struggling...
When it was set up in 1958, the FAA was an independent office with the power to act on its own. But in 1967 the agency was incorporated into the newly created Department of Transportation, which is geared more toward the problems of trains and automobiles than of airplanes. Butterfield has had trouble getting approval of a reorganization plan for his sizable operation-55,000 people and a budget of $1.5 billion-and he has even had problems filling key jobs. "I'm still frustrated over the inability to put the people I want where I want them," Butterfield...
...most serious charge against Butterfield is that the FAA has been slow to respond to the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent agency that has the responsibility in the federal hierarchy of promoting safety in all modes of transportation. The NTSB has also taken over the job of investigating aircraft accidents from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...more devastating blow comes on July 16. Former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield tells the Watergate committee that Nixon secretly taped his own conversations. Why Nixon allowed his participation in the cover-up to be recorded is one of the affair's greatest mysteries. Cox and Ervin request that Nixon turn over key tapes. On July 23, he rejects the requests on the ground of Executive privilege. Ervin and Cox issue subpoenas...
...Marshall Tucker Band finish up the weekend at the Cape Sunday night. The string Band is English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...