Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named executive assistant to the agency's deputy director, Admiral Rufus Taylor. If he seemed to be something of a Boy Scout to his colleagues, it was appropriate that Scouts first caused him to have misgivings about his employment...
...very disappointed with our play," Norwich coach Rufus Boyett said after the match. "They gave us a lot of trouble when we tried to move the ball...
William B. Saxbe, who was sworn in as U.S. Attorney General last week, scorned the subpoenas as a catchall amounting to a "fishing expedition." But the committee's deputy chief counsel, Rufus Edmisten, maintained that every item demanded was relevant to the investigation. This week the committee intends to ask Federal Judge John J. Sirica to order Nixon to surrender seven tapes-the same recordings previously given to a Watergate grand jury and also subpoenaed by the committee last summer. Later the committee will decide whether to request that Sirica force the President to turn over additional tapes...
Samuel Dash, chief counsel for the committee, Fred D. Thompson, its minority counsel, and Rufus L. Edmisten, a deputy counsel, will all attend today's conference...
There were other concerns as well. Massachusetts' Rufus King thought that impeachment would compromise the separation and independence of "the three great departments of Government." But "if he be not impeachable whilst in office," worried North Carolina's William Richardson Davie, "he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected...