Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominees will bring to 36 the number of people occupying the eleven Cabinet jobs since January 1969-and that figure does not include the repeat performances of Elliot Richardson, George Shultz and Rogers Morton. The most stable departments have been State (William Rogers, Henry Kissinger) and Agriculture (Clifford Hardin, Earl Butz). All other departments have had from three to six Secretaries...
Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
...thus ensuring a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The authors trace the Oswald double to a para-military band of right-wing Cubans. Most interestingly, the face of the Oswald tramp closely matches the drawing of Martin Luther King's assassin released by the FBI before they found James Earl Ray. Ray himself claims he was a pasty for a Cuban named Raoul...
...pleads for some kind of commentary. There is for instance the meeting in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, where Haldeman informs the President that the break-in was engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that...
...heroes of the book are those men who act most in accordance with the precepts of the law, and who do their jobs efficiently. So Earl Silbert and Elliot L. Richardson are praised profusely for "doing it by the book," and those who used the case as an opportunity to mount their political soapboxes incur Higgins's wrath...