Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of what passes for conservatism in the United States has an honorable pedigree, but not a conservative pedigree," he added, explaining that his thesis, based on Edmund Burke and Aristotle, will "defend strong government conservatism...
Haldeman also tells the President of plans to use "hardhats and Legionnaires" against antiwar demonstrators and describes how White House Operative Charles Colson surreptitiously sent one group of protesters a supply of oranges under the name of then Democratic Presidential Front Runner Edmund Muskie. The episode is thought by some to have been the beginning of a White House campaign of innuendo and slander against the former Maine Senator...
...devoted Watt fan--"my personal hero in the administration"--Kinal said he preferred California Gov. Edmund G. Brown's brand of liberalism to Kennedy...
Loeb's most notorious attack came during the 1972 presidential campaign. The Union Leader published a spurious letter claiming that Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine laughed at an ethnic slur aimed at Franco-Americans, and an item suggesting that Muskie's wife was overly fond of cocktails. The candidate's tearful denunciation of Loeb outside the Union Leader offices, captured on network television, was thought to have doomed Muskie's presidential chances...
Admits Brown's father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown: "Anybody would be crazy not to say that Jerry's been wounded. Whether it is mortal or not is hard...