Word: edgar
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...account of the relevance of the sexual exploits of the hero of the fellow-that-didn't-inhale "to our country's politics," see Anthony Summers' Official and Confidential, where we learn of why RFK allowed J. Edgar Hoover to bug Martin Luther King's bedroom to avoid exposure of JFK's sexual exploits, for example. Cambridge
Johnson, himself a master political conspirator, had deep suspicions about Kennedy's murder. "How many shots were fired," he asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in another call. Three, Hoover replied. "Any of them fired at me?" No, said Hoover. "All three at the President?" asked L.B.J., seeming to wonder. "All three at the President," responded Hoover...
...what about economic liberty? Individuals, and businesses too small to effectively extort these payments subsidize the border-hoppers with higher taxes. Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, who is stuck dealing with more than 300 million dollars in incentives doled out to a handful of companies by his predecessor, has come to realize this rub: "Once you get something, you might have given up so much it wasn't worth getting [the project], and everyone else that pays taxes is frustrated," Edgar told the National Journal last April...
...Right now, my father's not working because of health problems and my mom's the only one working, and I have a little brother at home, and I do feel the pressure to do well," said Edgar W. Bacai, who plans to enter business or medicine if he can attend college...
Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple -- he a white Jew, she a black Baptist -- were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so the ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord...