Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response to the inquisition of HUAC prosecutor Frank S. Tavenner. "I know many beautiful songs from your home county. Carbon, and Monroe, and I hitchhiked through there and stayed in the homes of miners...
...RICHARD M. NIXON by FRANK MANKIEWICZ 263 pages. Quadrangle...
...decontrol. Even if the White House should win the initial test, the stage has been set for a whole series of possibly disruptive confrontations between the President and Congress. Reason: legally, Ford has to resubmit his decontrol proposals to Congress every 90 days. That provision, says Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb, would give "Congress a continuing bite at the apple...
Politically Doomed. John Osborne and Frank Mankiewicz approach the story from a different point of view. Osborne is a veteran independent journalist, and his book consists mainly of reprints from his fine "Nixon Watch" columns in the New Republic. They demonstrate once again how perceptive Osborne was in sensing ahead of the rest of the press that the President was politically doomed and that Nixon's psychological stability was doubtful. Osborne's most memorable material is a discussion of the almost Queeg-like attention to petty detail that characterized Nixon's White House work habits long before...
...Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...