Word: korff
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Rabbi Baruch Korff National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency Washington...
...Father John J. McLaughlin, the Brooks Brothers Jesuit who was one of Richard Nixon's most vocal clerical defenders, will soon be leaving his $30,000-a-year job as a White House speechwriter and maybe even his flat in the Watergate complex. But unlike Rabbi Baruch M. Korff, who has vowed to campaign "for those [anti-Nixon] leftists and liberals to go to hell," McLaughlin seems to bear no grudges. In an interview last week, he admitted to feeling "rage, desolation and the bends" as the former President's case collapsed. But he also welcomed the sense...
Richard Nixon had received the message. When he held a private talk with one of his last-ditch supporters, Rabbi Baruch Korff, in the President's Executive Office Building hideaway at 3:30 p.m., he told Korff that he was seriously considering resignation...
Nixon's intimates, of course, were grieving. His industrialist friend Robert Abplanalp wired him: "Even at this hour, I remain firmly convinced that there is no evidence proving that any of your actions were inconsistent with your official responsibility." Rabbi Baruch Korff admitted that Nixon's last admission of complicity in the Watergate affair left him "distressed" but quickly added: "Yes, the President has weaknesses. He's a human being. So he waited three months before disclosing the information. So what...
...foreign policy. Arm twisting will be taboo. Explained one Nixon supporter: "It's counterproductive." Other White House aides, notably Buchanan and Clawson, will attempt to communicate the same line to the public, while Presidential Aide William J. Baroody Jr. will work with pro-Nixon organizations like Rabbi Baruch Korff's National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency Inc. Said Warren: "We face an uphill struggle, but in a political struggle you have a chance to win." At best, however, the White House strategists hope to narrow the margin for impeachment and make it less bipartisan; they...