Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genteel, and the thoughts drape sensibly, like Pat Nixon's wardrobe. The effect in Oklahoma and Colorado and Iowa, if not in the ghettos, is to stimulate faith. Nixon's memorized facts of national life are delivered with an easy candor over television. He is the family lawyer or the local banker, not necessarily inspiring, but welcome in a time of uncertainty...
...will not be a legislative President but an executive President, exploring those areas where he is sovereign and has to contend least with a Congress controlled by Democrats. A long time ago, he sat in his Wall Street lawyer's office, cramped and yearning, and he said a President should worry first about war and peace. He has not changed, despite the necessities of domestic political dialogue...
...reimbursement-at $71 million-that Peru is willing to pay. But the U.S. firmly opposes the blue-sky figure of $690 million that Velasco insists is owed Peru for 44 years of oil theft, and against which he is determined to apply whatever reimbursement IPC is finally allowed. Says Lawyer John N. Irwin, who has been representing the U.S. in negotiations on the impasse: "The declaration of such debts after the expropriation of the properties in effect means that there will not be any effective payment in compensation...
...Newhall tells it: "I talked to the mayor, who said my argument impressed him, and if I would come up with an amendment involving only newspapers, he'd take a fresh look at it. He's a very bright guy and a very good lawyer. At least he says he is. Anyway, the thing dragged on, and finally I just lost patience and wrote a letter stating I wouldn't comply. Then I couldn't get anyone to arrest...
Enough for Both. On his European mission, Secretary Stans will be accompanied by Lawyer Carl Gilbert, 63, former Gillette Co. chairman whom President Nixon last week appointed his Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Gilbert, a strong free-trade advocate, is chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy, a private group that opposes high tariffs and import quotas. His appointment ended speculation that the President might shift control over trade policy to the Commerce Department, a possibility that had dismayed a number of business, labor and farm groups...