Word: deweyitis
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...fell the task of logistical support, including transport, banking and hiring specialized agents. CIA Director Casey entrusted the task to the counterterrorism section, which in January 1986 he put under the direction of his longtime favorite, Duane ("Dewey") Clarridge. Charles Allen, the agency's chief analyst for counterterrorism, was made Clarridge's deputy...
...press for further hearings on the matter. Molinari particularly wants to know whether the regulatory agency was unduly influenced by former high-level FAA officials hired by Continental. These include Clark Onstad, the FAA's onetime chief counsel, now Continental's vice president of governmental affairs in Washington, and Dewey Roark, the FAA regulations attorney who became a legal consultant to Continental in March 1984 and helped draft the airline's rebuttal to the Langdon report...
...parochial than ever. His speech was directed almost exclusively at the converted, summoning them to war against the "small elite of lawyers, judges and educators" who have "taken the Holy Bible from our young and replaced it with the thoughts of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey." Though he ostensibly courts all Republicans, he failed to mention Reagan's name...
...Dewey's young prosecutors in New York before World War II, counsel for Senate postwar investigations of Truman-era scandals. He was the young G.O.P. lawyer who won seating of Eisenhower's contested convention delegates in 1952, thereby assuring Ike the nomination. Rogers helped Nixon through the Checkers crisis, counseled the shaken Vice President when Ike had his heart attack in 1955. Rogers was Attorney General for Ike and Secretary of State for Nixon. His public career rivals almost any other living person's, but he never sought acclaim...
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