Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican defeat in 1960 sent both men back to private law practice. Rogers rejoined the New York-Washington firm now known as Royall, Koegel, Rogers & Wells, practicing general corporate law. He is now a senior partner, with an income of about $300,000 a year, clients such as 20th Century-Fox, the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune, a home in Bethesda, Md., and a New York apartment overlooking the East River. Yet his life-style is not pretentious. His Washington office is smallish. His home is roomy but not luxurious; the swimming pool in back is a small...
...recommendations. Mitchell opposed attacking George Wallace, for example, and was one of those who urged the nomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice President. He also was among those advocating that disaffected whites be addressed not only with the law-and-order appeal but with arguments supporting the legitimacy of Negro demands...
...esteem, however, and soon after the election the boss pegged him for Attorney General, refusing to take no for an answer. It will be Mitchell's task to make good on one of Nixon's most specific campaign pledges: to check the rising crime rate by improving law enforcement and related services. Mitchell's personal views and record in this field are invisible. If he is going to come anywhere near to fulfilling Nixon's rhetoric, the Justice Department will have to adopt more of a police approach, with less emphasis on civil liberties than existed...
...have not," he snapped. But now Mitchell, 55, a bril liant bond lawyer who earns $200,000 a year and who became involved in Nixon's campaign when their firms merged in 1967, has taken on the difficult job of putting into practice the campaign or atory about law and order, much of which he was responsible for formulating. The Attorney General-designate gained his legal reputation by arranging municipal bond financing for cities and states across the country. It is possibly the most intricate branch of law, touching on just about everything but criminal and negligence cases...
...Detroit business executive, Mitchell already had adopted his but-toned-up style as a student at Fordham University Law School. A classmate recalls that he was "very closemouthed and got top grades apparently without opening a book." During World War II, Mitchell was commander of a PT boat flotilla in the Pacific-and John Kennedy's superior officer...