Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McKay last week offered the outgoing Attorney General one small consolation: he will not be prosecuted for violating any of the laws he had been entrusted to enforce. But far from the "vindication" that Meese had confidently predicted, McKay's 830-page report asserts that Ronald Reagan's longtime friend "willfully" filed a false tax return and "probably" violated conflict-of-interest laws. If Meese's legal troubles are behind him, his ethical behavior remains troubling...
...Iraqi pipeline. At the instigation of his friend and attorney E. Robert Wallach, Meese helped promote U.S. and Israeli guarantees for a proposed pipeline that would allow Iraqi oil to bypass the Persian Gulf. Wallach told Meese the plan included a proposal to pay off Israel's Labor Party so that Israel would not sabotage the project. "If an illegal bribery scheme actually was afoot, Mr. Meese's actions would have furthered the scheme," said McKay. But some participants refused to be questioned, and there was insufficient evidence that a bribe plot existed. Thus McKay did not charge Meese with...
Well the first thing is that he is from Tennessee. Another reason is because he is seen as a moderate. While he is a good friend of NAACP President Benjamin Hooks, it isn't for certain that he could bring in Blacks. Baker could bring in some moderate Democrats to the fold...
Dukakis, obviously, is no Hippolytus. He has given his hostage to the gods of love in Kitty. He can be moved by the plight of others; he can faint at the bloody reality of pain, be disarmed at the sight of real Athenians, waver when his friend misleads him about a campaign trick. But he does radiate to voters his own sense of being chosen. Sam Beer, Harvard's famous professor of government, who taught Dukakis at Swarthmore, says, "He was born to rule." He was always the Inevitable Michael. Things fall into place for him as by plan...
...hunch is that it will be Stu ((Symington))," I said. Kennedy shrugged, a soft confirmation of sorts. (It was not hardened until the following week, when Kennedy asked Clark Clifford, a Symington friend, to tell the Senator he was the choice...