Word: herbert
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...sheaf of documents from his offices at the Nixon finance committee, presumably related to his political-espionage plans. Magruder similarly ordered his Watergate-related documents destroyed, including reports of intercepted conversations at Democratic headquarters. Strachan went through Haldeman's files and destroyed documents reporting the Liddy plan. Herbert Porter, the Nixon committee's scheduling director, shredded various expense receipts given him by Liddy. Later both Fred LaRue and Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, destroyed records on the amounts of money they had secretly distributed to the Watergate defendants or their attorneys. Acting FBI Director L. Patrick...
...first, President Nixon reacted coolly when the golf course idea was presented to him by Herbert Kalmbach, then his personal attorney. "We pressured the White House," explains Richard. "We just thought it was too good an idea not to be adopted." Finally, Kalmbach reported that the President would accept the gift as long as no man contributed more than $750 and each signed an agreement that no favors would be expected in exchange...
...came under the lasting influence of Darwin's disciple, T.E. Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that made the monkey the common ancestor of kings and cockneys. He was soon mixing Darwinian science and the social philosophy of Herbert Spencer in articles and stories that found ready outlets in Grub Street periodicals...
Spirit of Freedom. A Lost Lady is typical of the kind of prairie pastoral Cather did best. Through the eyes of a boy named Neil Herbert, it tells of the Forresters, a couple whose fortunes are tied to the railroads. Their house outside Sweetwater-one of the many fictional names Cather gave to her own town of Red Cloud-is known "from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere." Neil is enchanted by young Marian Forrester. She wears the only earrings he has ever seen, allows herself a little wit and more than...
Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, cling to the fragile hope that consumers will simply refuse to buy costlier foods and thus slow price rises soon. Portents are not good, partly because of the sharp slowdown in beef production, which remains under freeze until Sept...