Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard line was taken up by Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who knocked down any possibility that Nixon might meet with Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, as it requested last week-for the third time. Ziegler indicated that the President may be planning to defy the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry by not voluntarily turning over White House documents. The press secretary also applied a new gag on White House officials who have been willing to talk candidly, but anonymously, to reporters. All contacts with the press, he ordered, must be reported...
With McCormack as his patron, O'Neill soon entered the inner circle of the House, where his blarney and good fellowship made him a quick favorite. O'Neill regularly attended the select meetings of Sam Rayburn's "board of education," afterhours sessions in the Speaker's office where the likes of Lyndon Johnson, Albert and McCormack met over bourbon to discuss the business of Congress...
...asked permission of Boggs' wife to go ahead, to be sure that she had given up hope that her husband would ever be found. Working the telephone, O'Neill lined up the support of 121 Democrats in three days and 190 by Thanksgiving. His only rival was Sam Gibbons of Florida, who quickly withdrew when he saw that the struggle was hopeless. Said Gibbons: "I know better than anyone that Tip doesn't have an enemy in the House...
After the Watergate affair broke open last spring, O'Neill became deeply involved in the House's reaction. He and Albert squelched as "premature" a move by Congressman John Moss to have the House start impeachment hearings after Senator Sam Ervin's committee began its work. O'Neill knew that there were insufficient grounds at that point to justify the step, which could jeopardize future efforts if the evidence came to warrant impeachment...
...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...