Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic ear...
...bouquets at me... Don't laugh at my jokes too much ..." Listening, Murray Chotiner, Nixon's longtime adviser, took the cigar out of his mouth and cracked: "That's the Vice President singing to the President." Malatesta, the nephew of Bob Hope, quickly whispered into the ear of the pianist, who then swung into Getting to Know You. "And that," said Malatesta, "is the President singing to the Vice President...
What Colson had going for him was the ear and the admiration of the President. Colson had avidly cultivated that contact. Shortly after arriving at the White House, he had met Nixon a dozen times but complained, "The President doesn't even know who I am." Once a corporation lawyer and lobbyist, as well as an assistant to former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Colson had been hired by Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow as a political tactician. He proceeded to exploit his friendships with many labor leaders. Colson gained Nixon's appreciation with his advice on how the President...
...should the President want to keep an ear on the activities of his brother? The most common conjecture in Washington was that the President had been worried about Don's efforts at "trying to make a living." In the past, F. Donald Nixon's attempts to get along in the business world have caused the President acute embarrassment...
...nights a week at 9:30, Charlie Douglas sounds two beeps on a truck horn, and thousands of truck drivers on the road all over the country cock an ear. For the next 7½ hours, over WWL, a clear-channel New Orleans radio station at 870 on the dial, they can hear not only country music but business information that could be vital. Two years ago, Disc Jockey Douglas-who has never driven a truck, but was fascinated by the big rigs that rolled through his boyhood home of Ludowici, Ga. -sold WWL on an all-night program beamed...