Word: flanigan
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...that simple. Peter Flanigan, a Nixon staff expert on the draft, has admitted that the plan leaves a giant loophole. Anyone who has a deferment at least until January, 1971, can parlay it into a permanent exemption from the draft-if he draws a low place in the lottery for this year...
...least that's how it looks to Flanigan. But Selective Service officials say a man is liable to be drafted for twelve months. All that is certain now is that the issues are confused...
Oriental Playmates? Both Streeter and Assistant Prosecutor Ronald Flanigan argued that two-year-old Scott would be more comfortable living in the colored South Park section of Port Huron instead of in the Damaschkes' white neighborhood. "There's a noticeable difference in color between your other children in the home and Scott, is there not?" Flanigan asked Damaschke's wife Joy, belaboring the obvious. Does the boy have any Negro, Indian or Oriental playmates? asked the prosecutor. Judge Streeter had a question for the social worker who testified for the Damaschkes. "Can't you foresee...
Most of the important stirring, however, was being done on Nixon's behalf. New Jersey was restless under its commitment to the favorite-son candidacy of Senator Clifford Case, and the Nixon forces decided to move in on it. On a golf course over the weekend, Nixon Aide Peter Flanigan told State G.O.P. Chairman Webster Todd: "Look, we need your delegation right now." Todd, whose wife was openly supporting Rockefeller, shot back: "Hell, no!" But pressure continued on individual delegates, who saw no purpose in holding out for a lost cause. By Tuesday night it was open knowledge that...