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...lawyers will stage a day-long demonstration trial on August 25 and conclude with a banquet featuring Samuel Dash, chief Democratic Watergate counsel...
...Samuel Johnson once remarked that there is nothing like waiting to be hanged to sharpen a man's faculties. So it is with Skelton from the moment a last horizon is penciled in a few inches from his nose. He designs the skiff along the firm specifications of his daydreams. He begins to fall in love with his girl. Most of all, he seeks links between himself, his father, and his grandfather, an energetic old crook of limit less cynicism, "bilking everyone and being down right fatherly about it." His preference in sexual foreplay is to jump around...
Mitchell opened his 2½ days of testimony forcefully. Appearing under subpoena and against his will, he presented no overall statement and fielded the initial questions of Chief Counsel Samuel Dash briskly and pointedly. As expected, Mitchell admitted sitting through three meetings, the first two as Attorney General, at which the bizarre and illegal political espionage plans of G. Gordon Liddy, then the Nixon re-election committee's chief counsel, were presented. Indignantly, Mitchell said he was "angered" and "aghast" at these plans. They were "a complete horror story" and "beyond the pale." Each time, he said, he clearly...
...seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would...
...Died. Samuel Irving Rosenman, 77, one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most valued advisers and speechwriters; in Manhattan. Rosenman's father was a clothing manufacturer in San Antonio before the family moved to New York when the boy was eight. In 1928, when Roosevelt ran for Governor of New York, Rosenman joined the campaign as legislative expert. He became Roosevelt's counsel the following year and, for F.D.R.'s acceptance speech of the 1932 presidential nomination, he contributed the term "New Deal." Later in the campaign Rosenman recruited the intellectuals for the Brain Trust. A state...