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More than most Presidents-elect, Nixon relied heavily on the supporting cast he has learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration...
...news became official, "I was the last one asked to the prom." Not quite. Nixon had had Rogers in mind for Secretary of State for some time. Rogers has enjoyed Nixon's complete trust since the 1952 campaign, when he advised Nixon during the furor over the "Nixon fund" and helped frame the famous Checkers speech. In 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon turned to Rogers before anyone else. "He was a friend," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment...
Familial Duties. In Boston next day, Ted took up his self-imposed task of fund raising to pay off the $3,500,000 in debts run up by Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. He was determined not to let the $1,000-a-plate banquet at the Sheraton Plaza degenerate into a wake. After expressing the Kennedys' gratitude to the "finest and dearest friends of our family," he gently needled his mother Rose, introduced her as a "shy and retiring person," as evidenced by her frequent appearances on NBC's Today show. Listening to Ted, a Boston...
...self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work is one organized explosion of dismay suffused with the solace of Schoenberg's fund of religious faith, the somewhat overwrought vitality of the performance was understandable...
TURNING away from the fitful franc for a moment, the International Monetary Fund last week reported some sanguine statistics about world trade. For the first time, nations are selling goods and services to each other at a rate of more than $200 billion a year. The flow reached $209 billion in this year's third quarter, an increase of 8% in the past twelve months. Altogether, the industrial nations increased their exports by 116% in the past decade...