Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Counsel to the President and the man who conducted the investigation of the Watergate case that cleared all White House staffers. A lawyer who has hardly practiced privately, clean-cut Dean worked as minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. He gained such a reputation as a Nixon loyalist that in 1969 he was hired by the Justice Department as its legislative liaison man. Highly recommended by almost every Administration official with whom he came into contact, Dean caught the eye of image-oriented people at the White House, and in 1970 moved over there to succeed John Ehrlichman...
Carter was also co-chairman of the biracial "loyalist" Democratic delegation which overthrew the regular Mississippi delegation at the 1968 national Democratic convention. He was delegate and vice-chairman of the Credentials Committee at the 1972 convention...
Derian said that the Loyalist Democrats were formed in opposition to the Regulars "because blacks, women, and youth were excluded from Mississippi politics" and because "the Regulars have not endorsed a Democratic Presidential nominee since Roosevelt...
Last week Ulster's Protestant extremists called a 24-hour general strike under the auspices of a newly formed organization called the United Loyalist Council. "There is going to be no more pussyfooting," cried the council's chairman, William ("King Billy") Craig, who has a way of turning up at the head of militant Protestant groups. "The strike will be a show of force and determination...
...Force (U.V.F.), which, unlike the U.D.A., is an illegal organization, took part in the bus bombing incident two weeks ago. Certainly it has become more visible lately. Even as William Craig blandly denied at a press conference last week that the U.V.F. played any role in the new United Loyalist Council, a U.V.F. representative sat in plain view behind...