Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dates was the music. In every joint there is a Wurlitzer filled with country music, and maybe a little K.C. & the Sunshine Band thrown incongruously in for dancing and revisionism. The best songs in the jukebox were progressive country: Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings (and the Waylors), Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Emmy Lou Harris, along with Jimmy Buffet in a more folk-pop direction and Merle Haggard in a more mainstream country tradition. With his Friends album, Hank Williams, Jr. joins this group...
Kissinger was fearful that Nixon's close aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (he called them "idiots" and "the Nazis") might somehow learn of these transcripts of conversations. Kissinger spirited the documents off to the Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate of Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he had long worked. But when Kissinger was reminded by one of his legal advisers that classified information must be retained on Government property, he retrieved the papers and hid them in Washington...
...proposed bill, which is to be presented to Congress this week, is the result of hard bargaining between Attorney General Edward Levi and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. There were helpful contributions from Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, Liberal Democrats Gaylord Nelson and James Abourezk, Conservative Democrat John McClellan, Moderate Republican Charles Mathias and Conservative Republican Roman Hruska...
...bouquet of primary victories under his arm. The night before his smashing victory in Illinois, he courted 30 heavyweight Democrats and journalists over dinner at the Georgetown home of Liberal Columnist Clayton Fritchey. The guests included Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Sol Linowitz and former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Moving from table to table between courses, Carter charmed nearly everyone and surprised many with his grasp of the issues. Said Fritchey: "He made some real time with those people." Added Clifford: "I found him quite well informed...
...most desirable possible replacement was Hugh Morrow, the longtime press aide of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Haig made a pitch to Morrow to become White House "Communications Director," with Cabinet status...