Word: counsels
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...youth vote is not a hard sell to Republicans," says David Norcross, a former RNC counsel who has been pressing the youth vote to Republican leaders in Washington. Norcross sits on the board of George Washington University, which partially funds Smith's organization. After he learned that Republicans were in danger of losing young voters, Norcross connected Smith with GOP leadership, who "have been very receptive to the need to reach young voters," he says...
...toys last year, involved products from China. The volume of consumer goods from China has nearly tripled since 1997, but the agency's budget has increased just 12%, to $62 million, over the past five years. "There's no question it's strapped," says Eric Rubel, a former general counsel to the commission...
Support, of a sort, for the Castro-as-mastermind theory recently came from David W. Belin, a top counsel for the Warren Commission. In his new book, Final Disclosure, Belin says that "it is possible" Oswald was part of a Cuban conspiracy. It may have developed, Belin writes, when Oswald visited Mexico City...
...most of the books explain, the Mob had ample reason to want Kennedy out of the way. As early as 1957, he sat on the Senate Rackets Committee chaired by Arkansas' John McClellan; Robert Kennedy was its chief counsel. The Kennedys joined in the committee's stiff grilling of such gangsters as Los Angeles' Mickey Cohen, Louisiana's Marcello and Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, whose underworld ties presumably led to his murder...
...then Blakey, its chief counsel, found an acoustics expert who examined a police Dictabelt recording made of one of the two radio channels used during the motorcade. After tests in Dealey Plaza, the scientist concluded that sounds on the belt came from an escorting motorcycle with its microphone stuck open, that four shots could be detected on the belt and that there was a fifty-fifty probability that one of them came from the knoll. Blakey called in two other experts, who raised the estimate to 95%. The committee then concluded that a conspiracy was "probable...