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...back-slapping Georgian who went to work as a welder in 1941 and later was an official of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities...
...dealing not only with Watergate but also with a whole new closet of dirty linen possibly involving Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, he was subtly but unmistakably rebuked for his performance by both the President and Vice President. The separately delivered scoldings only underscored the anomaly of his uncomfortable middleman's position: Richardson is charged with overseeing investigations of the only two federal executives who rank above...
...three armed services-Army's G2, Office of Naval Intelligence and Air Force's A2. DIA men tend to view CIA men as the spoiled darlings of the intelligence community. The CIA, which once dealt directly with military intelligence services, resents DIA'S role as middleman, and tends to look upon its members as minor-league spies...
Since no one can possibly be fully objective in political analysis, representatives of CIC and PCR insist IRRC plays a frustrating role as "middleman" between the advocates and institutional boards of trustees...
Epps admits that his ombudsmanship has been less than satisfactory. Student-faculty dialogues have often degenerated into standoffs and as a middleman, he says he feels weight from both sides. Epps's intention to carry through with his "constructively critical" role inside the Administration thus carries discouraging precedents...