Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Board Chairman John Mahan ruefully confessed to a congressional committee that he and his four fellow members devoted much of their well-paid time (salary: $36,000 a year) to the study of hostile federal court decisions. Instead of fighting Communism, the board kept busy coping with bad publicity, such as the 1967 news that President Johnson had levitated the 29-year-old husband of one of his favorite secretaries to a board sinecure...