Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the damage done to Ford's standing by his clemency for Nixon?and much of it seems ultimately repairable?the controversy also hurt members of Ford's staff. As the only member of the Ford inner circle known to have supported the President's decision before it was announced, former Nixon Hand Alexander Haig was sullied. While Haig belittled his own role in that decision, other staffers resented the Nixon holdover and suspected his influence. Haig has been in frequent telephone contact with Nixon and Ziegler, talking to San Clemente at least three or four times weekly...
TerHorst's sudden resignation over the Nixon pardon appears to have ended that blissful phase, drained the high hopes and seriously smudged the Administration's credibility. TerHorst learned of the pardon only late the day before it was made public, when an inner group of White House aides approached him about arrangements for Ford's announcement. It was not the first time in the past week that terHorst had been kept in the dark about an important presidential decision. White House aides misled him into telling reporters that General Alexander M. Haig Jr. would remain...
...quickly became subordinate to other issues," says Charles W. Bailey, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. In an editorial last week, the Chicago Daily News discerned "the cold, clear sign of a throwback to the Nixon White House era of manipulating the press secretary and the press while the inner circle of cronies decided what degree of candor was affordable...
...member of the Governor's inner circle, Moses sang bass to Smith's tenor and soon became, in Smith's words, "the best bill drafter in Albany...
Besides taking a huge administrative burden off his shoulders, the new dean would be part of Rosovsky's inner circle of advisers, which includes Burton S. Dreben '49, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, President Horner and Robert J. Kiely, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. Rosovsky wanted a natural sciences professor for the post, and Dreben suggested Pipkin, a longtime colleague. Rosovsky, Pipkin and Dreben were, in fact, all junior fellows together here in the mid-fifties...