Word: sen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). Scott, the Senate minority leader, has backed every Nixon scheme that has come down the turnpike. He has been especially vocal about Vietnam policy. He may just be a loyal careerist, but that defense did not help Adolf Eichmann...
...Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Eastland, a professional racist, has from his post atop the Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee opposed even the mildest measures for racial justice. He doubles as a gentleman farmer: his huge Mississippi plantations receive the Agriculture Department's highest annual acreage payments...
...Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) read a memorandum to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which Walters said he was ordered by Haldeman, then Nixon's chief of staff, to contact acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray III to ask that the FBI not pursue a Mexican lead in the early investigation of the Watergate break...
...Sen. Jacob Javits (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that, under this proposal, "cities are left with the Hobson's choice of firing the father in order to hire...
Obvious choices, notably Sen. George McGovern, were passed over--people who could deliver an address worth the time spent listening. There are many: Elma Lewis, the founder of the Boston Afro-American Cultural Center who received an honorary degree from Harvard last year; Saul Bellow, another honorary recipient in 1972; J. Anthony Lewis '48, the Times columnist who is returning for his 25th Reunion this year...