Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future, Americans are going to get away from this idea and pay more attention to who the President's appointments will be-before we elect...
Back in the good old days in Austin, Texas, say 1970, a guy could risk trouble for deriding country-and-western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
...mayor, Walter Sullivan is in no sense the town's leading citizen. In Cambridge, the mayor has little more administrative responsibility than his weekly chairing of the city council meetings. The mayoralty usually rotates among the councilors, who elect the mayor from their own ranks every two years...
...resignation) shows that Nixon hopes to hide White House and C.R.P. involvement in the break-in by getting the CIA to limit the FBI's activities. Nixon's personal attorney Herbert Kamibach gets $75,000 from Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President-the first of more than $400,000 distributed to the Watergate defendants and their lawyers...
...thereof, and concerning other unlawful activities including those relating to the confirmation of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General of the United States, the electronic surveillance of private citizens, the break-in into the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, and the campaign financing practices of the Committee to Re-elect the President...