Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without a glance at the 150 reporters who jammed the White House briefing room, Ziegler turned on his heel and walked out. Nixon himself sat down in the Executive Office Building and, working from a draft prepared by Speechwriter Ray Price, he composed his final nationwide address, which would be the 37th speech from the White House by the 37th President...
...many Republicans, the sadness of the occasion was softened by the knowledge that the party's prospects in the November elections-as well as 1976- had been vastly improved. "We're getting off to a fresh start," said former G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss. "I believe this will be a morale booster." In Massachusetts, Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent was quick to take advantage of the change in the political climate. Since only 19% of his state's voters are Republican, Sargent must maintain an almost nonpartisan position to win reelection, yet in the meantime he faces...
...Fish and New England's William Cohen, may well influence wavering Republicans when the full House acts on the committee's recommendation. The influential roles played in the committee's decision to impeach by its articulate Southern Democrats, Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton may also swing other Southern Congressmen against the President...
...also disturbed by the discrepancy between what the President was doing and what he was saying. "You take the whole sordid mess and compare it to the public pronouncements of the President, and it just doesn't fit." He talked often with Ray Thorn ton and James Mann, sometimes as they walked together to the House floor, and finally decided. "I felt that if we didn't impeach, we'd just ingrain and stamp in our highest office a stan dard of conduct that's just unacceptable...
Robert D. Ray, 45, Republican Governor of Iowa since 1968, is widely respected for his integrity (he accepts no campaign contributions greater than $1,000). Ray quietly guided 31 bills through the 1974 legislature, including a measure requiring the creation of a department of transportation. A Drake law graduate, he advanced through the ranks as a Republican Party worker, in 1963 was named state G.O.P. chairman to help bring an end to party factionalism before winning a three-way race for Governor...