Word: clement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James's, contributed $254,000; Mrs. George Farkas, wife of the founder of Alexander's department store, and ambassador-designate to Luxembourg, anted up $300,000 ($200,000 of it after Nixon was safely re-elected). Even in Washington, however, money is not everything. Insurance Magnate W. Clement Stone, for instance, kicked in $1,000,000 last year-along with several hints that he would like the London post-but he is still biding his time in Chicago...
Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...
Chief Judge Clement F. Haynsworth said yesterday that Whiting's action amounted to unlawful suppression of students, and violated the paper's first amendment rights...
...Dean's reputation as a friend of the Administration and a diligent worker had been established. Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, hired him as the legislative liaison for the Justice Department because "everybody in town recommended him." Dean was in charge of lobbying for the Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Just before the Senate rejected the Carswell nomination, a frustrated Dean remarked to a colleague: "If we don't win this one, I might as well hang...
...seated beside one of Nixon's wealthy friends tried to converse about the talent that the President had assembled. It was like getting a Dun & Bradstreet report. Each man's worth to the Republic was based on his portfolio. When someone raised doubts about Nixon Booster W. Clement Stone, an astonished White House staff member protested: "He must be great! They say he's made $200 million...