Word: counsellors
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...head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down...
Their mutual respect has grown ever since, and now Nixon has given Burns, 64, a job without peer or precedent on the White House staff. As "Counsellor to the President," he will be the only Nixon staffer with Cabinet rank, assuming broad responsibility for shaping the President's legislative program. Burns' mandate reaches into every cranny of domestic policy. He describes the job as an American equivalent of the European minister without portfolio: that is, a top-ranking government official liberated from the bureaucratic burdens of a specific departmental command...
Besides Reischauer and Galbraith, the diplomat-sponsors of the executive group include Benjamin V. Cohen, former State Department counsellor and senior advisor to the U.S. delegation at the United Nations, and Roger Hilsman, former assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern affairs...
James N. Whitney, a 33 year-old assistant professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Albany, said that he and Sandra Gove '71, and Michael G. Mickelsen, full-time BDRG counsellor will have to reappear in court on November...
James N. Whitney, a 33-year-old assistant professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Albany; Michael G. Mickelsen, a full-time BDRG counsellor; and Sandra Gove '71, were convicted in late July in the Boston Municipal Court of trespassing, a misdemeanor. They appealed the case and made their third appearance before the Superior Court yesterday. The judge will probably hand down a decision on Friday...