Word: holtzman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only member to talk tough to the President was Brooklyn's Elizabeth Holtzman, a first-term liberal Democrat, who delivered a speechlet about the need to dig further into the whole affair, which had raised "very dark suspicions ... in the public's mind." Among a series of questions, she wondered if Ford would be willing to turn over to the subcommittee all the taped recordings of conversations between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug...
Behind the shutout pitching of south-paw Ken Holtzman, the A's made the change pay off. Sal Bando and Ray Fosse came up with key home runs to give Oakland a 5-0 victory over the Orioles...
...stubbornly pursued the Oakland A's. It would take a miracle, though, for Texas to catch the world champions. The A's have the pitching and long-ball power to run away in the West. Catfish Hunter had already won 20 games when September began, and Ken Holtzman is rapidly closing in on the mark. In Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudi, the A's have three of the top-six run producers in the league. That is the kind of record that will make other division winners long shots to take the World Series...
...neutrality was being respected. The Administration later contended that the secrecy was necessary to maintain Cambodian Prince Sihanouk's tacit approval of the action, which was aimed at Communist troops in border mountains, not at civilians. The arguments were carried most effectively by New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman and Alabama's Flowers...
...HOLTZMAN: But Prince Sihanouk was deposed on March 18, 1970, and there are three years thereafter that this Administration, including the President, lied to the Congress and lied to the American people without any justification ... Congress may very well have approved it. But... it was the right of Congress to have known ... Deceit and deception over issues as grave as... waging war cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy...