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...South Bend, Ind. O'Malley arrived at Notre Dame in 1928 as a freshman from Clinton, Mass., and stayed there for the rest of his life, living in student residence halls. His unconventional, deeply spiritual approach to literature endeared him to generations of students, including Ohio Governor John Gilligan and the late novelist Edwin O'Connor. Students flocked to his courses in such numbers that O'Malley had to screen them for admission. Renowned for producing a prodigious crop of fellowship winners, the quiet bachelor once described his favorite pastime as "writing letters of recommendation...
...children." Mahe staged campaign appearances for Gradison by Vice President Ford, Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, James Buckley of New York and Charles Percy of Illinois and former Attorney General Elliot Richardson. To match the Republican effort, Luken brought in Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Ohio Governor John Gilligan and Veteran Political Consultant Mark Shields. His advice to Luken was to focus the campaign even more squarely on the President...
...years ago, this place was a pigsty. Now the patients are eating family style." So saying, Ohio's Governor John J. Gilligan went back to his job: helping Cerebral Palsy Victim Jimmy Long with his exercises at the Orient State Institute near Columbus. Since he took office in 1971, Gilligan has made a special effort to improve the conditions of the hospitals in which the state's 23,000 mentally ill and retarded live. From funds raised by Gilligan's introduction of a state income tax in 1971, $900,000 has gone into a "humanization" program, ensuring...
Growing Cynicism. Governors and mayors are having to contend with a growing suspicion of politicians and cynicism about government. In Atlanta, a supporter of Democratic Mayoral Candidate Maynard Jackson exclaimed: "These days a politician is about three cuts below a used-car salesman." Says Ohio Governor John Gilligan: "I don't visit a town that the question isn't asked, 'Why do all you politicians turn out to be crooks?' " Gilligan cites that attitude to explain why less than 20% of Toledo's voters went to the polls in the recent municipal election, compared with...
...page 16), called the speech "a rehash, a solicitation of the public to make the committee quit working." He said that it reminded him of the old lawyer who advised a young colleague: "When the facts of law are against you, give somebody hell." Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan slyly noted that in Nixon's discussion of the confidentiality that exists between lawyer and client and between husband and wife, the President "stopped short of [mentioning] the relationship between psychiatrist and patient-which his top staff went out of their way to violate." Ralph Nader disliked the speech...