Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes he has a real chance of winning on Nov. 2. To shake up his organization, Ford eased out affable but ineffective Rogers Morton as campaign director (he will head a still unformed steering committee). Ford replaced Morton with James A. Baker III, 46, the bright, tightly disciplined Houston lawyer who quit as Under Secretary of Commerce and did a superb job of rounding up delegates for Ford...
...Haldeman's offer to testify against Ehrlichman and others in exchange for pleading guilty only to a single felony charge: "[Haldeman's lawyer John] Wilson sought to keep the conversation going, trying a number of times to get the judge [John Sirica] to give some hint of the length of sentence Haldeman could expect. Each time the judge waved the query aside, repeating, 'He'll have to take his chances...
...Haig's threat that Nixon's lawyer, James St. Clair, would make things "bloody" for Jaworski: "I finally said, 'I don't care how tough he is. I've come to grips with tough lawyers many times in many places, and some of them-well, St. Clair wouldn't make a pimple on their butts...
...Nader jump into Washington Lawyer Simon Lazarus' Corvair after a party, then warn the attorney not to mention that Lazarus had been stopped by a cop for exceeding the speed limit because Nader feared the headline: RALPH NADER CAUGHT SPEEDING IN CORVAIR? Undoubtedly...
...thinks he's a hero," she complained to the Westsider, a Manhattan weekly. Political groupies were also a bad trip, said Mary, who "had to compete with women for years as a wife of a very attractive man and a man in public life." John, now a practicing lawyer and part-time commentator on ABC's Good Morning America, had nevertheless steered clear of would-be lovers, she insisted. "He knows that I would be very tough on anyone like that." How tough? "I'd just smack the hell out of her, pull her hair out, kick...