Word: pleadingly
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...unprecedented $61 million. An accountant by training, Stans had been budget director under Dwight Eisenhower and later began fund raising for Nixon, ultimately becoming Nixon's first Secretary of Commerce. To this day Stans steadfastly maintains he was not involved in any Watergate wrongdoing. In 1975 he did plead guilty to five misdemeanor violations of campaign laws, paying a $5,000 fine. (A year earlier he was acquitted of conspiring to stifle an SEC probe of financier Robert Vesco.) Watergate did not dim his loyalty or his powers: he raised $30 million for the Nixon library. Stans deems some...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former FBI supervisor Earl Pitts will reportedly plead guilty to spying for Russia. Pitts, a 13-year bureau veteran, was arrested in December and charged with selling secrets to Russia from 1987-92 for more than $224,000. Only the second FBI agent ever charged with spying, Pitts could spend the rest of his life in prison. At the time he was accused of being in league with the Russians, Pitts was assigned to hunt and recruit Soviet KGB agents, and later worked on top secret documents and personnel security at FBI headquarters. He was arrested after...
...campaign only to reappear last year in the First Family?s living quarters. McDougal's story, if it checks out, supposedly will shed light on these issues. The problem for prosecutors is that testimony from a man with a history of mental illness who is looking to plead down his conviction on 18 felony charges may prove less than convincing to a jury...
...machine has jumped into action to support its once all-powerful, now flailing leader. As TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, "Virtually everyone of any stature was involved" in the campaign waged to save Newt's job. Even Gingrich himself got on the phone to House Republicans to personally plead for votes, says TIME's Jay Carney. On Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form of a 650-word editorial in the New York Times and an afternoon press conference. In both venues, Barbour argued that Gingrich has been held...
Richardson had just unpacked after his trip to Pyongyang to retrieve Hunziker when Sherry Early, an Albuquerque constituent, telephoned on Dec. 1 to plead for his help on behalf of her husband John, who was being held by Kerubino's forces in war-torn Sudan. Richardson says he never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane...