Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foundation in 1969, the trustees had grand plans for building a museum and library for the papers and mementos of the 37th President. The foundation's board included some of the most powerful figures in the country - men like John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and an influential lawyer named Herbert Kalmbach - to say nothing of Billy Graham and several distinguished businessmen...
...former Nixon presidential counsel, Edward Morgan, has already pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate tax laws in backdating a deed that gave Nixon's pre-presidential papers to the National Archives and gained him a $576,000 tax deduction. Nixon's former tax lawyer, Frank De Marco, and the appraiser of the papers, Ralph Newman, are also under scrutiny in the papers incident...
...rare tribute to a victorious opponent, Attorney John J. Wilson called James Neal, the chief U.S. prosecutor in the Watergate conspiracy case, "the greatest lawyer I ever saw in a courtroom." Wilson's client, H.R. Haldeman, and three of the four other Watergate defendants were convicted at least in part because of Neal's awesome command of the facts in the case and his ability to summarize complex events in a persuasive Tennessee drawl. After his courtroom triumph, Neal, 45, was eager to return to his private practice: "I'm going to catch the first flight back...
...Start. If his poetry bears no resemblance to his lucid work as a constitutionalist, it is central to his view of teaching law. The legal profession, like others, increasingly demands undiverted specialization by its practitioners. Black deplores that fact. "Students need to be told that you can be a lawyer and not be crushed," he says. They need "to get the idea that people can do other things and still be a lawyer...
...that shouldn't be held against it. In many ways, Equus is simply a good old-fashioned play; Dysart is not too unlike the detective who solves a crime because that's his job but wonders whether he was right to turn the man in; not too unlike the lawyer who gets a client acquitted who might really have committed the crime; not too unlike the doctor who saves the life of a patient who might be better off dead...