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Some legislators who have kept a strained silence are beginning to break, like New York's Senator James Buckley...
There also is evidence that while Presidential Lawyer James St. Clair's intricate legal tactics of delay and noncooperation may be admirable for a normal defendant in a courtroom, they are devastating to the President of the U.S. The longer that Nixon is kept from some kind of legal reckoning or due process of law, the more impossible it is for people to grant him that most ancient and widely hailed of all juridical rights-the presumption of innocence until proved guilty. One thing that emerges from studying those polls is that most Americans are concluding that Nixon...
Master Plan. What is more, in the past ten years, only six of these money bills have been passed before the date that they were needed: July 1, the beginning of each fiscal year. Congress has regularly had to whiz through temporary funding measures that kept programs going. Nixon is not the first President to accuse Congress of "fiscal irresponsibility...
...anyone can remember, the head of the accounting division in the office of administration is a CPA. The new chief of the office of administration, Robert James, a former management consultant, is computerizing employee records and the previous year's expenditures-detailed accounts of which have never been kept. Bond has asked Missouri companies to "lend" executives for up to six months to study state administration and make recommendations; so far 41 executives have volunteered...
...plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...