Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month before the donation to get a date for Sears with SEC Chairman William J. Casey. Sears further contended that when he did meet with Casey he simply requested that Vesco be allowed to tell his side of the story. Asked Fleming: "Did you ever ask Mr. Mitchell to fix the Vesco case...
...didn't want to do anything to it. I paid $110 a month and there was no good electricity or heat in the apartment. When I repaired the house myself, the landlord charged more rent. He said the taxes went up. Most of the Portuguese people do that--fix up their apartments--and then the landlords go higher with the rent...
...fix the apartment ourselves--the painting, the papering, everything. After we did, the landlord raised the rent. I asked myself, Is this the price we must pay for wanting to live clean and in good conditions?" Costa says...
When Richard Nixon picked Leon Jaworski as special prosecutor, there were those who darkly suspected that the fix was in. Jaworski, a 68-year-old Texas Democrat who had been close to Lyndon Johnson, had quietly supported Nixon for re-election in 1972. As a highly successful $200,000-a-year trial attorney, he was a pillar of the Houston Establishment. There were unconfirmed reports that his appointment had been cleared by John Connally to make sure that he had a proper understanding of the President's predicament...
More important, Kalmbach steadily emerged as the White House's financial Mr. Fix-It, the man who could be counted on, without quibbling, to collect or pay out money as problems arose. In addition to the charge of obtaining contributions and secretly and illegally funneling them to candidates, which he pleaded guilty to last week, Kalmbach was one of the bagmen who picked up campaign contributions from milk producers just before the Administration upped milk-price supports in 1971. He paid Donald Segretti some $45,000 in salary and expenses to carry out his campaign of political dirty tricks...