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COLLINS WENT TO New Orleans to plead his case personally before his draft board and request a conscientious objector application. He was told that since he was a full-time student, he would be reclassified 25. Collins was satisfied and returned to Michigan, dropping the CO matter. Upon arrival, he was greeted by an induction order dated before his trip. Since the date of induction had already passed, he returned immediately to New Orleans to clear himself and seek a CO form. The clerk instructed Collins that it was too late to apply for CO status because he had already...
EVERY Administration has its in-house contact with big business-a staff aide or presidential intimate to hear the complaints, plead the cases and soothe the ruffled feathers of the fat cats and Pooh-Bahs. The position naturally invites allegations of mollycoddling business at public expense. But few who have held it have proved more controversial or more subject to charges of favoritism than Peter Flanigan, Richard Nixon's "Mr. Fixit" when it comes to powerful business interests...
...Government's files are probably closed for the present. The chargees against the three defendants-including grand larceny, conspiracy, perjury and mail fraud-could theoretically result in sentences of more than 100 years in prison for each defendant. But if the three plead guilty this week and can return the $750,000 they extracted from McGraw-Hill, there is a chance that Irving may receive a light sentence and serve as little as six months, with Edith getting a suspended sentence in return for cooperation with authorities and Suskind being sent up for a short stretch in a state...
Helfand claims that he never assaulted an officer. "A cop jumped me from behind and then hit me over the head with a blackjack," Helfand said yesterday. "I never saw him and I'm not really sure what happened. I'm definitely going to plead 'not guilty'," he added...
That scene symbolized the real significance of this year's State of the Union message. Needing help from a Democratic Congress in an election year, Nixon used his report, supplemented by a written message, to plead with his foes to put the public interest above their partisan concerns-and thus set them up for censure if they fail to respond to the lofty call to statesmanship. Confident, conciliatory and optimistic, Nixon was at his professional best in a speech honed, through eight drafts, to a taut 31 minutes. Heavy on generalities, soft on specifics, the address was far from...