Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides had managed to assure just about everybody that the Governor would resign before the first of the year, after 15 years in the job. The post will then be turned over to Rocky's faithful Lieutenant Governor of those 15 years, Malcolm Wilson, 59, a conservative party loyalist. Rockefeller would thus avoid having to seek a fifth term in 1974 and the prospect of facing one of two hungry, popular Democrats: Congressman Ogden Reid or Howard Samuels, director of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. If he lost the election, his presidential hopes would be killed...
...many of the young presidential aides caught in Watergate, but they have also tried to smear the reputation of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and are now discrediting White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt. If Buzhardt devised the ludicrous Watergate legal strategy, he deserves criticism. But publicly humiliating a loyalist like Buzhardt is another of those small human rituals that most people comprehend...
...Heaven, we must stand on the firm soil of our native land." And he sometimes told about Luis Companys, president of Catalonia under the Spanish Republic. Casals had met him while conducting concerts for the Workingmen's Concert Association he'd organized and playing the cello at benefits for Loyalist Spain. After the fascists triumphed, Companys was executed. "When he faced the firing squad," Casals said, "Companys lit a cigarette and then he removed his shoes and socks. He wanted to die with his feet touching the soil of Catalonia." This was a pleasure Casals himself missed: he exiled himself...
...seem. "That Pablo Casals!" one Fascist general remarked. "I will tell you what I will do to him if I catch him. I will put an end to his agitation. I will cut off his arms--both of them--at the elbow!" And Casals indicated in 1970 how the Loyalist leaders regarded...
Although Richardson was regarded as an Administration loyalist, his chief allegiance throughout his career has been to law. "Law is the indispensable attribute of an ordered society," he once observed. As Attorney General, he said his goal was a "clearing of the air to ensure that there is fairness, one system of justice for the rich and the poor, the white and the black...