Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equally disastrous results. Richard Nixon's need to keep the tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when he announced during a skiing trip at Vail that he would propose legislation to make Puerto Rico the 51st state, he started the island...
...Warren Earl Burger was understandably miffed when the mail brought his invitation to Jimmy Carter's Inauguration this week as the 39th President of the U.S. It asked a fee of $25 for a hard, wooden bleacher seat to watch the 2-hr. Inaugural parade. "If I have to pay $25," joked the Chief Justice of the U.S., "I'll charge Carter $50 to swear...
Carter had earlier dropped plans to name Greg Schneiders, 29, as his presidential appointments secretary because of reports that he had improperly collected unemployment benefits while running a Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...
Tough-Minded. Incredibly, two men considered to head the investigation were Mark Lane, who has lived substantially for the past 13 years off writings and lectures attacking the Warren Commission, and Bernard Fensterwald Jr., who once represented James Earl Ray. Lane had the sense to bow out, but he recommended the man who was eventually appointed as the $39,600-a-year chief sleuth: Richard A. Sprague, 51, a tough-minded former district attorney from Philadelphia...
...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...