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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...
...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...
...events of the past two weeks made any quick agreement by Congress to Soviet trade concessions more remote than ever. Last week Peter Flanigan, chief White House adviser on foreign economic policy, asked Congress temporarily to drop trade legislation that would grant the Russians most-favored-nation status. The move for delay was partly a face-saving gesture, both for the Administration and Moscow. A Senate amendment sponsored by Senator Henry Jackson, tying MFN to free emigration from the Soviet Union, had seemed embarrassingly certain of passage...