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...suggestions of their own, they all must finally defer to the Senators. Staff work is demanding. Senior lawyers interview prospective witnesses, and junior lawyers help out with such questioning when they are not doubling as investigators. Dash, Thompson and Deputy Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene but find wherever they go that people are full of questions-which they must nearly always refuse to answer. Ervin has imposed no hard and fast gag rule, but, says Edmisten, "he expects us to act with...
Shortly before his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. told his constant alter ego and right-hand man, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, "Ralph, whatever happens, keep the team together." Last week, his shoulders sagging and his voice an emotion-charged bass, Abernathy stood before King's tomb on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta and spoke to his fallen mentor: "I did what you asked. I tried to keep the team together. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for resigning this day. I'll see you in the morning...
...director. Short and spectacled, LaRue is a Mississippi oil and real estate millionaire, who joined C.R.P. as a chief aide to Mitchell in 1972. Respected by Nixon intimates for his political savvy, secretiveness and loyalty, and valued for his connections to Southern Democrats, he was considered Mitchell's right-hand man at C.R.P. He is reported by sources close to the Watergate case to have helped destroy records linking C.R.P. with the bugging...
...explained that Brooks had served as Dunlop's "right-hand man" regarding Faculty Council relations and the preparation of legislation for the Faculty and was therefore well suited for this aspect of the deanship...
...Dunlop's right-hand man, Brooks has been instrumental in directing the 21-member Faculty Council. Brooks like Dunlop has strong ties to the Federal government, spending at least two days a month in Washington in his capacity as a member of the National Science Board...