Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House official who appears to have been a generous source for The Final Days is former Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, who emerges as a hero in the book after criticism elsewhere for hangdog loyalty long after he was aware of Nixon's involvement...
Shuttling into the ballpark, New York Democratic State Chairman Patrick J. Cunningham strode quickly, hoping after weeks of indictments and political tightrope-walking, to be lost in the crowd. He had built the new stadium as much as anyone, profited more than most. Cunningham was general counsel to the Yankees as well as party chairman, and there were those (most cogently, Jack Newfield of the Village Voice) who said maybe he had mixed his functions, more than a little. "The stadium is going to cost the city $24 million and six judgeships," New York's city council president had said...
...with ten of his twelve children. Within a week he would allow Patrick Cunningham to proceed with his quest to get himself re-elected state Democratic chairman, legal problems aside. There were those who implied that Governor Carey's decision was affected by the fact that Cunningham's counsel in a key legal fight was Edward Bennett Williams, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and close friend of Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss...
...also expected to be named trustees of the institute and thus continue running the empire. The three are Frank William Gay, Summa's executive vice president; Nadine Henley, Hughes' longtime administrative assistant and senior vice president; and Chester Davis, an abrasive Wall Street lawyer who is general counsel...
...money supply to keep interest rates low, Government action to cut unemployment and "effective price controls on key industries, such as steel, food, utilities and prescription drugs." Liberal Udall has tapped many sources for advice, including economists of the congressional Joint Economic Committee. But he especially respects the counsel of John Kenneth Galbraith, who has long contended that the concentration of economic power among the nation's major corporations is a prime source of inflation and argues for permanent price controls. To a considerable degree, though, Udall relies on his own knowledge. He has had a strong interest...