Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget, which will chart the course of the Government. Only Energy Czar William Simon has been in frequent touch with Nixon lately (see cover story page 22). The White House staff will soon be weakened by the departure of the only two seasoned political aides that Nixon has. Melvin Laird will be leaving at the end of this month, and Bryce Harlow has said he will not be far behind. Both Laird and Harlow were persuaded to join the White House after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Nixon's two top aides, resigned last April over Watergate...
...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...with the nation's business, they are often as not ignored, and Nixon turns to inexperienced, frightened aides for the little counsel that he accepts in his splendid state of isolation. The White House now faces a new parade of departures, headed by sound men like Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow...
While many braided men-as well as women-cajole friends or family into helping them twine their locks, others visit an expanding coterie of cornrowing specialists. Manhattan Corn-Rower Femi Sarah Heggie has plaited the likes of Aretha Franklin, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Simone and Dick Williams. Brooklyn Plaiter Christine Harper, on the other hand, concentrates on braiding businessmen in their 20s and 30s. "Rugged he-men types are my best customers," she says. The mahatma of Washington corn-rowers is Nat Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros...