Word: rog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risks is that you have to risk offending a few people if you really are going to strengthen your organization. But you really have got to have somebody come in who's going to strengthen it, to add to it. I don't know what [Campaign Director] Rog Morton wants to do. But there is some talk of John Connally coming in, and [Budget Director] Jim Lynn's name has been tossed about. There's also been some talk about some of the Reagan people. I know President Ford wouldn't want to offend anyone...
...year is 1854, and after "rog-ering" his wife in a London closet, he departs for the Crimea, where-you have guessed it already-he leads the charge of the Light Brigade (without meaning to), falls prisoner to Cossacks, escapes from the Russian steppes by sled, and, after many a contretemps, foils the Czar's plan to overrun India by helping a grisly band of Transcaucasians to blow up two boatloads of gunpowder...
Dole's role thus will be that of a party spokesman rather than an organizer. Articulate and sometimes abrasive (TIME, July 6, 1970), Dole is expected to be rougher and sharper than the amiable and widely admired Morton. The difference, observed one White House aide, is that "Rog is a big old St. Bernard, while Dole is a hungry Doberman pinscher." One leading Republican offers an intriguing rationale for the switch: Morton was never as partisan as Nixon wanted, so Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the hatchet duties. Now Dole will eagerly perform them, while an attempt...
...doubt that Rogers Morton today looks a great deal better than Wally Hickel did at a comparable time in his career. Nobody expects Morton to match Hickel's gusto, drive and independence. But many predict that he will be more politically effective. According to one of his friends, "Rog feels the pressure of Hickel's record. He will not want it said that when Hickel stood up, Morton caved in to special interests...