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...Richardson chooses the prosecutor, the investigation will be doomed from the start," Tribe said. He added that he was strongly in favor of a special Congressional committee to select the investigation members...
...comparison with his predecessor, Bok moved swiftly to fill the vacant position. McGeorge Bundy resigned the post in December 1960 to join the Kennedy Administration, but it took President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28 18 months to select a new dean...
...Washington federal judge, John J. Sirica, applied intense pressure on the wiretappers after their conviction in January, urging them to break their silence. A determined federal grand jury in Washington, which had handled the original Watergate indictments last summer, then got firmer leadership from aroused prosecuting attorneys. And a select Senate committee headed by North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. moved rapidly to explore the whole sordid Watergate scandal in televised public hearings...
...economic planners were in any way tainted. Yet for the most part the President has been ill-served by the type of men he has chosen to work with him. Throughout his presidency one of his greatest weaknesses has been his inability to attract, or his unwillingness to select, men of depth and vision. He has surrounded himself in the White House with practical men whose priority qualification is loyalty. With some exceptions, they tend to be manipulators, managers and protectors rather than independent-minded advisers. They get things done?and the means do not seem to matter...
...Christian Science Monitor that these visits are not "big partying occasions" and it is not true "that Frank Sinatra and I are going around raising hell together. I respect and admire him very much. And I'm not about to let any rumors interfere with my right to select my own friends." Quietly, Agnew has been visiting compatible intellectuals, possibly in search of stimulation on some of the deeper emerging national issues. They include Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, Futurist Herman Kahn and Historian Daniel Boorstin...