Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking slowly as his mind gropes for a way out, Nixon recalls that in a familiar July 6, 1972, conversation, he told acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray to "conduct your aggressive and thorough investigation." Nixon does not note that this was after the CIA had refused to put its concerns about "national security" in writing, as Gray had insisted. Nixon tells Frost that this FBI go-ahead shows that, whatever he might have said in June, by July he certainly was not obstructing justice...
...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...
Died. William Cardinal Conway, 64, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and 112th pastoral descendant of St. Patrick; after surgery for removal of his gall bladder; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Conway was spiritual leader for Ireland's 3.5 million Catholics, including Ulster's 500,000. The tall, husky Cardinal condemned the civil turmoil in Northern Ireland, calling both Protestant and Catholic terrorists "monsters...
...described as "the toughest in the country, maybe in the world." Her two days on campus as a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government were one of her few public outings since she lost the New York Senate primary race to Harvard Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan last September. As she put it, "Harvard's loss was my loss...
...Patrick's Day was just around the corner, the temperature was leaping daily, and the inspiration returned. (It must have. How else can you explain going to FineArts 13 twice in the same week...