Word: patrick
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...again. In 1970 they pledged an additional $2 million, in part to be collected from the two other cooperatives. The promise, according to the report, was first made to Charles Colson, then a White House special counsel, and later directly to President Nixon by Associated Milk Attorney Patrick Hillings. On March 12, 1971, however, then Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin decided that no increase hi milk price supports was warranted. To reverse the decision, the cooperatives began an intensive lobbying campaign. On March 22, 1971, they delivered a first payment of $10,000 on their campaign pledge (actual donations were...
Written for a reported $100,000 advance with the help of Freelance Writer Patrick Anderson, Magruder's book contains only an occasional hint of the abject contrition that marked his final statement to the bench, and it offers little fresh evidence about the evolution of the Watergate crimes. He guesses Nixon was involved all along in the coverup: "Based on my knowledge of how the White House operated, I would suspect that once the burglars were arrested, Nixon immediately demanded and got the full story, and that thereafter he kept in close personal touch with the cover-up operation...
...said: "Pat's not a quitter. After all, her name was Patricia Ryan and she was born on St. Patrick's Day, and you know the Irish never quit...
...country entered the final week of its second election campaign in only 17 months, almost everybody-and everything-went to the hustings. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government triumphantly produced a glowing testimonial from the country's only Nobel-prizewinning author, Patrick White. The Wildlife Protection Council eagerly proclaimed that a Labor victory was the last hope for the kangaroo...
...begun jumping on the greenlining band wagon too. With the backing of Illinois Governor Dan Walker and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the Illinois state housing development authority last month announced that it will lend $20 million to state savings and loan institutions for distribution in city neighborhoods. Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey has written to lenders in Milwaukee County condemning redlining. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, over seer of all federally chartered savings and loan associations, recently outlawed any geographic distribution of loans that discriminates against minority groups...