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...role is as complex as the man who runs the Office for Government and Community Affairs (OGCA). Daly and two assistants are veterans of Washington politics, who have performed liaison work for such disparate causes as President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, Congressman Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.). and the Children's Foundation. In such capacities, Duly has earned tributes regularly reserved for God and Eleanor Roosevelt, drawing praise for scrupulous and blunt honesty while awing Washington's Camelot-prone denizens with a keen ability to persuade. Under Daly, the OGCA has discharged with impressive finesse the monitoring of potentially...
...next day, we heard anguished screams from the colleges--Dartmouth. Princeton, and so on," McCloskey reminisced recently. The private colleges stood aghast at the notion of requiring sex-balanced students, despite the increased funding, and decided to let the Representatives know. Letters, telegrams, calls and visits poured into the offices of the bill's friends and allies...
Celluloid. The bulky party platform, composed at the White House and supporting the President on every imaginable issue, is accepted with scant protest. California Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, who may have one elected delegate at the convention, wanted to be put in nomination for President to air his antiwar views, but television time is too valuable for that. The Rules Committee last week hastily approved a proposal that no one can be nominated unless he is supported by a majority of delegates in three states. "Open-door party!" snorts McCloskey. "It's like putting five padlocks...
...affair and amid troubles with local convention facilities, the Republicans switched the convention site from San Diego, the city the President had personally picked. Everything else is well in hand at this point, however, and Richard Nixon, having brushed off the challenges of Liberal Paul (Pete) McCloskey Jr. and Conservative John Ashbrook, will come to Florida in firm control of a united party, assured that no major surprises await...
...Susan filed suit for divorce after nearly eleven years and two children, claiming "irreconcilable differences" and her half of more than $2,000,000 worth of joint property. Andy Griffith's Barbara also filed for divorce (23 years, two children), while California's Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey, onetime presidential candidate, separated from his wife Caroline after 23 years and four children. By contrast, one California marriage enjoyed a happy 32nd anniversary dinner at the White House. Tricia and Eddie Cox helped the President and Mrs. Nixon celebrate with Pat's favorite foods: Swiss steak, whipped potatoes, corn...