Word: gurneys
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...international tensions eased, Nixon was forced back on the domestic griddle. Some of Nixon's most ardent defenders in the Congress, including Congressman Ford, Senator Hugh Scott and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney, warned Nixon that he must appoint a new independent prosecutor; if not, Congress assuredly would...
...candidates. The committee also called two of the 28 agents Segretti had enlisted to help him pursue those aims in a dozen states. The testimony of this third-rate trio of political schemers indicated that they were far from a formidable, sophisticated force. With considerable justification, Republican Senator Edward Gurney called theirs a "rinky-dink operation...
...Gurney, repeatedly emphasizing the limited distribution of various deceitful or defamatory letters, handbills and ads circulated by Segretti and his crew, seemed to miss the main point. While the testimony failed to show that these tactics had actually contributed much to Muskie's downfall or turned the candidates bitterly and personally against each other, this was due more to ineptness than to a lack of intent. Moreover, Segretti testified that he reported his acts, some of which were crimes, to Chapin, his "control" at the White House. He said that Chapin, who was then Nixon's appointments secretary...
Under questioning by Senators Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) and Edward Gurney (R-Fla.) of the Senate's Watergate committee, Buchanan defended his recommendation that the tax-exempt status of nonprofit foundations be reexamined and if possible made a subject of public debate by advancing the theory that most if not all such foundations--specifically the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institute and the Institute of Politics--belong to what he called America's "liberal establishment...
Buchanan's remark about the Institute came during his testimony before the Senate Watergate committee Wednesday afternoon. Under questioning by Senator Edward Gurney (R-Fla.), Buchanan said that the Ford Foundation, the Institute of Politics and the Brookings Institute, among others, exemplify the politically liberal foundations that he suggested are the principle beneficiaries of foundations' current tax-exempt status...