Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructing Ron Ziegler to henceforth take no more questions from the press on Watergate. It is caught up in an unstoppable investigative process, in the courts and in Congress. If it has consumed a year, Nixon's own resistance to disclosure, his dismissal of Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox, and his missing or erased White House tapes are major reasons. Nixon's "voluntary" cooperation with Jaworski has actually been a grudging struggle under threat of court action -and Jaworski may still have to seek subpoenas for other long-requested White House evidence...
...COURSE, not everyone appointed by President Pusey was exclusively scholarly either--Peretz's predecessor, Mary I. Bunting, was president of Radcliffe, and F. Skiddy von Stade '38, master of Mather, wears almost as many hats as Kiely does. But Bok's bureaucrats, by and large, seem younger, more ambitious, more into the nuts and bolts of things, and maybe closer to the central administration than their predecessors--like Charles U. Daley, Bok's vice president for government and community affairs, or Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to Bok, or Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration...
...Neill was elected to Congress as Representative from the polyglot district that now embraces Boston's fashionable Beacon Hill, 36 colleges and universities, as well as the working-class neighborhoods of Cambridge, where his real power lies. His predecessor in the seat was John F. Kennedy, who moved to the Senate that year. When O'Neill went down to Washington, he made sure that his roots remained firmly planted in Cambridge. His wife Millie and their five children stayed at home in their modest house on Russell Street, just four doors away from the two-family house where...
Indeed, Simon almost instantaneously has propelled himself into the elite circle of Administration officials -which includes Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary George Shultz-who run vital parts of the Government as virtual baronies under a distracted monarch. Simon's predecessor as energy policy chief, John Love, complained that he could not get Nixon's attention; in five months in office, he was able to see the President alone only four or five times. Self-confident Simon took office proclaiming that he did not need to go running to the White House on every decision...
Another vital change is the substitution of Simon's driving administrative approach for the slow, cautious methods of his predecessor as energy czar, former Colorado Governor John A. Love. On Wall Street, Simon throve as a bond trader who regularly had to make quick decisions on deals involving many millions of dollars, with painful penalties for failure. A long-hours man who regularly lunches at his desk (on enormous delicatessen sandwiches), Simon does not believe in large formal meetings that seek to form a consensus among those attending. He prefers to get information and advice from close aides...