Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staying away from the convention hall until he becomes the nominee Wednesday night. His acceptance speech the following evening will elaborate on his now familiar vision of a government "as good, as compassionate, as full of love as the American people." The first drafts are being fashioned by Speechwriter Patrick Anderson, a former newsman and author of the recent, faintly scandalous The President's Mistress...
...person that Scotland Yard would very much like to talk to about the robbery is Stephen Patrick Raymond, 30, a dapper, self-confident redhead who had worked for several months as a shipping clerk, filling in customs and transit forms, at Purolator's London office-until he failed to show up after the weekend of the theft...
...officials told TIME that as many as 150 agents had a hand in between 75 and 100 bag jobs. A few occurred before Hoover's death in May 1972, but many took place under Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, who resigned in disgrace during the Watergate scandal. Gray refused to comment, but Malone has acknowledged that the list "could have been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure...
...March 23. Patrick Henry, Virginia's foremost orator, denounces British rule by declaring, "Give me liberty or give me death...
Even as a young man, Washington was noted for his stately manner (Virginia's new Governor Patrick Henry once praised his "solid information and sound judgment"), but he sometimes showed a lighter side with ladies. A "chatty, agreeable companion," one of them wrote to a friend, "he can be downright impudent sometimes, such impudence ... as you and I like." After a certain amount of impudence among notables like the Fairfaxes, his patrons, the young war veteran settled down with the widowed Martha Custis, then 27 (two children by her first marriage, none by her second). Said Washington: "With...