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Such relationships are inevitable for a variety of reasons, including regulatory procedures and the realities of political fund raising. Businessmen, like all citizens, obviously have the right to plead their cases in Washington and seek to influence Government decisions. However, the fact that affluence is usually influence cannot be denied. Nor is there much doubt that powerful private interests are often willing to spend their way to favorable decisions. Therefore investigative reporting-a term considered by Anderson to be "too high-toned" for his own work-is an invaluable antidote to corruption. It is also a practice with a proud...
JACKSON. To achieve his third-place ranking in Florida, Washington's Scoop Jackson also muddied his strong civil rights record, which dates back some three decades, staking out an antibusing position just a shade short of Wallace's. The main difference was that he did not plead for a halt to busing by presidential decree or legislation; instead, he sought the slower route of a constitutional amendment. Jackson's amendment is under consideration in the Congress and it includes "freedom of choice" and the "neighborhood school," proposals long espoused by anti-integrationists. He also called for federal...
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...