Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. Senator John Williams, who first blew the whistle on Baker and who was sitting in on the hearings although not a member of the committee, was unwilling to let it go at that. His reluctance set off a shouting match. Williams said he had offered Committee Counsel Lennox McLendon, a back-home crony of Committee Chairman Everett Jordan's, Democrat of North Carolina, a "rather complete file" on various McCloskey contracts. McLendon, he said, had brushed the offer aside, saying he wasn't interested. Roared McLendon: "Senator, you're absolutely and unalterably untrue in your statement...
...Restaurant, the Botanical Gardens, and the painting and statuary on the Hill. In committee, two major problems arose. Three of the Democratic members preferred to defer to a subcommittee headed by the less than energetic Carl Hayden. The chairman, B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) refused. Secondly, an impartial counsel had to be brought in from cutside the Senate. The committee seemed on the verge of an investigation of the ethical standards of members of the Senate establishment...
...committee counsel, Lennox P. McLendon, a skilled lawyer from North Carolina, the Baker case was disillusioning. He had been persuaded that "this investigation involved not only a man named Baker but the operation and philosophy of government." The committee uncovered many of Baker's financial shenanigans outside the Congress. Yet it ignored the problem of the misuse of his influence within the Congress. The charges of Ralph Hill whose suit initiated the Baker affair were clarified. It was learned how Baker's vending machine company Serv-U had grown in two years into a $3.5-million business with contracts with...
Chief Justice Warren, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin and Bobby Kennedy spent 45 minutes with Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home when she told of the assassination. She served lemonade, replied softly to Rankin's gentle questioning. Excerpts...
Stoutly unswayed are the court's four hard-core moderates: - Chief Judge Tuttle, 67, a native Californian, who has lived in Atlanta since graduating from Cornell Law School in 1923. A former G.O.P. state chairman of Georgia, Tax Lawyer Tuttle was the U.S. Treasury Department's general counsel when Eisenhower appointed him to the court in 1954. As the senior man under 70, Tuttle became chief judge in 1961 when the overworked Rives relinquished the job. Tough-minded Tuttle is regarded as one of the fairest, most efficient judges...