Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants it, which he seems to." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania added: "I think our nation is strong enough to withstand the functioning of its own Constitution." The Republican leaders doubtless also had in mind the possibility that Nixon could be acquitted. White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan warned that if Republicans forced Nixon out of office and he were later found to be innocent of wrongdoing, it "would be close to fatal for the Republican Party...
...Personally [inaudible], well, I've been [inaudible] and have advised the Jury of that fact and two that [Acting FBI Director L. Patrick] Gray, from what [former U.S. Attorney Harold H.] Titus who has [inaudible] of the [inaudible] over there has to go to see Sirica...
...cronies caught with their hands in the till, but scandal has touched his family. He never denied that in 1972 he used his influence to get the city controller to place millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an obscure suburban agency that employed his son John Patrick as a solicitor. Said Daley: "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's this world coming to?" The mayor has also been embarrassed by the revelation that John Patrick and another son, William, won their insurance brokers' licenses improperly...
...Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According to CBS, Nixon used the word "Jewboy" in referring to Daniel Ellsberg. The White House denies that Nixon used any of those terms...
...myth that the President is too busy to read newspapers or watch television. An adjunct to the myth is that Nixon gets the news better and straighter from the 20-to 50-page press summary delivered to him before 8 a.m. each day by White House Special Consultant Patrick Buchanan. The transcripts should thoroughly dispel the myth. In his Feb. 28 meeting with Dean, the President discusses in impressive detail what the newspapers are saying about the woes of Campaign Finance Chairman Maurice Stans...