Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last seven and a half successful years," said he. "On this matter, let me set the record straight.* During these years Dick Nixon has participated with me and high officials of your Government in hundreds of important deliberative proceedings of the Cabinet, National Security Council and other agencies. His counsel has been invaluable to me." Nixon, he said, is "the possessor of a vast richness of experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy . . . man capable of calm decision in the midst of frenzy, a man who is neither intimidated by selfish pressure groups at' home...
...abhorrence of laziness, works like a stevedore himself and demands the same kind of dedicated performance of his workers. In return he gives complete loyalty. (When the Senate labor rackets committee was winding up its investigation of corruption in the nation's labor unions, Chief Counsel Bob Kennedy called in each of his 50 hardworking staffers, talked at length about their problems, and arranged at least one job prospect for each man and woman.) Except for a handful of top assistants, Bobby trusts no one, feels compelled to assure himself of every situation. Many politicians and field workers accuse...
...rate political campaigner). In 1952 Bobby joined the legal staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee. A diligent worker, he uncovered a headline-getting scandal involving British merchant ships carrying supplies to Red China during the Korean war. The "slipshod" investigations of the committee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, seemed just as scandalous to Bobby, and he resigned from the committee staff. But he was soon back on the subcommittee as the Democrats' minority counsel. After the Democrats won the Senate in 1954, Bob Kennedy took over as the subcommittee's chief counsel...
...Those who counsel teen-agers realize that often those who are unhappy in school are those who cannot 'keep pace.' If the gang travels to the next town to take in a game and you can't go along, if the sweater for the rally or the booster's club happens to cost more than your family can afford, or if you can't stop now and then to buy a Coke after school-sometimes these things pile up until school just isn't worthwhile...
Died. John Francis Neylan, 74, colorful San Francisco attorney, a onetime chief counsel of the Hearst empire and a regent of the University of California from 1928 to 1955, who in 1949 began a clamorous, ultimately unsuccessful battle to impose an anti-Communist loyalty oath on the university faculty; of a pulmonary condition; in San Francisco...