Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other recipients of his generosity and placed the total funds given to 18 present or former public officials and staff members since 1957 at $1,778,878. Rockefeller paid about $840,000 in taxes on those gifts. Another $326,290 was bestowed on nongovernmental associates, including $155,000 to Emmet John Hughes, an author, journalist and former adviser to President Eisenhower...
...Patterson, editor and president of the St. Petersburg Times. "We're not a bunch of little Nells who were innocently seduced by the President. It's just the first time that Ford had a dustup with the press. There's bound to be more." Adds Emmet Dedmon, editorial director of the Field newspapers: "A honeymoon can last only until a President's first major decision...
...wouldn't have understood what they were talking about," says former Speech Writer Emmet Hughes. "Anybody who would have engaged in even a 60-sec-ond exchange like those would have been thrown...
...EMMET JOHN HUGHES 377 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
Long before the revisionist historians appeared, way back during the cold war, when the U.S. still believed that freedom to spend and freedom to vote were signs of an inviolable national excellence, Emmet John Hughes wrote a book called America the Vincible. A former journalist, Hughes had served as an adviser to President Eisenhower. Self-righteousness, selfdelusion, lack of humor and inflexibility, he felt, were dividing the world and leading U.S. policy to disaster...