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...sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell me that I'm no longer Queen/ Did Ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than...
...bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin Foundation, which was set up by a man with links to Las Vegas gambling...
...rejection by mostly liberal Senators of Nixon's Supreme Court nominees, Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell. But there was more to it than that. It was also based on Douglas' unseemly $12,000 annual fee from a scholarship-granting foundation set up by Albert Parvin, who had links to Las Vegas...
...fellow public servant. After the Nixon Administration was stung by Senate rebuffs of two nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ford led an impeachment drive against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Ford charged that Douglas had received an annual retainer of $12,000 from the Albert Parvin Foundation, which reportedly had underworld connections in Las Vegas. Ford also denounced the Justice for writing an article for Evergreen Review in which he seemed to sanction violent revolution in America. Waving a copy of the magazine, Ford pointed out that Douglas' article appeared in the salacious company of photos of nude...
...PARVIN A. DAMANIA Bombay