Word: flanigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harsh Rebuke. Ignoring pressure from President Ford, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee failed to confirm Peter Flanigan, onetime troubleshooter for ex-President Nixon, as Ambassador to Spain. The inaction probably kills the nomination. Flanigan had been involved in selecting Nixon's ambassadors, including Ruth Farkas, who became envoy to Luxembourg after donating $300,000 to Nixon's campaign...
...Flanigan had also played a role in ITT's favorable 1971 antitrust settlement by getting a former White House intern to produce an analysis that supported the corporation's position...
...months. Ford's selection of Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush as chief of the U.S. mission in Peking, and Presidential Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rush as ambassador to Paris, served this purpose while filling important diplomatic posts with men of stature. Ford also intends to dispatch Peter M. Flanigan, another Nixon stalwart, as Ambassador to Spain...
...Yeah. [Presidential Assistant Peter] Flanigan's got a report on it here...
...Well, I am not going to do it. I really want you to bring in Flanigan and all these others [unintelligible] and lay it to them [unintelligible...