Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the mystery, they were given their first dramatic break early in April when Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, testified before the committee. Kalmbach was not exactly a willing witness; he refused to divulge details of conversations he had held with Rebozo because of their lawyer-client relationship. But Lenzner, with the approval of Chairman Sam Ervin, pressured him into changing his mind...
...investigator told him that Rebozo had denied that Kalmbach was his attorney. Thus Kalmbach was no longer bound by the lawyer-client privilege. There is some dispute whether Rebozo had said any such thing. "Lenzner twisted the record and twisted statements to leave the completely wrong impression," says Rebozo's Miami attorney, William S. Prates, who also is John Ehrlichman's lawyer. "He was terribly devious in the way he went about it." Whether tricked into his testimony or not, Kalmbach was the most useful witness for the committee since John Dean...
...Gitter, began to restrict the Welles mainly to American films, in keeping with Gitter's original theory. At this point Jaszi began the laudable Welles format of keeping a directorial retrospective going on in at least one of the theaters--the practice that has disappeared today. Jaszi, now a lawyer for the American Film Institute, also began the film appreciation class that grew into The Film School, another Welles project that has since been abandoned...
...balance was held by self-styled populist Al Vellucci, who had supported control in the past. Vellucci loves to play to a crowd, or an issue. On the council floor, he will pace like a country lawyer, cross-examining witnesses and fellow councilors with a sarcasm tinged with ethnic pride. While the liberals complained about Danehy's attempt to split their coalition, Vellucci played coy, talking about the dilemma he faced deciding how to vote...
...conposed of Francis H. Burr '35, a partner in the prestigious Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, who has served since 1954; Nickerson, director and former chairman of the board of the Mobil Oil Corp., who has been a member since 1965; Hugh Calkins '45, a prominent Cleveland lawyer, appointed in 1968; Blum, a History professor, and Slichter, a Physics professor; in addition to President Bok and Treasurer George Putnam...