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...hearing was on Nixon's nomination of Earl J. Silbert to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. He was a member of the original Justice Department team that investigated the Watergate breakin, and the Senators were far from happy with its performance. But Ervin made it clear that he felt the blame for the original investigation's failure should rest primarily on Petersen and Richard Kleindienst, who was Attorney General at the time...
Presidential Economics Adviser Kenneth Rush and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz huddled with cattlemen, meat packers and chain-store operators to explore ways to bring down the retail price of meat and stave off bankruptcies in the cattle industry. They urged the retailers to cut prices further to move meat off the shelves and into shopping baskets. Retailers indicated that they would cooperate, and Butz tried some sales promotion of his own. In a deliberately mixed-up metaphorical exhortation to consumers, he exclaimed: "Now is a whale of a good time to stock your home freezers with beef...
...ever, the experts found. To bridge the gap, McGovern recommended that the U.S. set up a $20 billion "Plowshares for Peace" program that would build stockpiles of food for needy nations to draw on. That is another idea that seems unlikely to be adopted: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who will present the Nixon Administration's proposals for solving world food problems to an international conference in Rome in November, has already turned thumbs down...
There is a Tuesday morning prayer breakfast, which just last week heard Senator Lawton Chiles talk about Solomon's request to the Lord to give him a heart capable of listening to the people, of discerning right from wrong. About 20 people attended, including Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. Now and then, men from the White House protective service, including policemen and Secret Service agents, have a prayer meeting. There also is a young women's group that with some regularity meets to study and discuss the Scriptures...
...Never put off till tomorrow," exhorted Lord Chesterfield in 1749, "what you can do today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah...