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...smoothest confirmation hearing concerned John Mitchell, Nixon's former law partner and now his Attorney General. The 55-year-old bond expert told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would use electronic devices for "national security and against organized crime." Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor, had brusquely refused to obey a congressional directive to use wiretapping. Asked if he would mix politics with his work at the Justice Department, Mitchell answered that the 1968 campaign was "my first entry into politics, and I trust it will be my last...
...three times, in each instance losing some of its younger and more radical supporters and some momentum for reform. Hoping to charge through that generation gap is Caldera, 52, a talented lawyer who has been trying for the presidency since 1947, and now has assembled the country's smoothest-functioning political machine. Also in the running are four splinter candidates, most notably Acción Democrática Dissident Luis Beltran Prieto and Miguel Angel Burelli, who has the support of three minor opposition parties...
Judson Gooding, an old Paris hand, left his San Francisco bureau post on three hours' notice. Getting to Paris, he recalls, was the smoothest part of the assignment. Airline schedules were so fouled up and so many potential travelers had given up in disgust that he found himself the only passenger on an Air France 707 to London. After catching a rare flight to Le Bourget airport, his luck held and he managed to get the last Hertz car available. Then, like his colleagues fanning out from Paris to Lyon to Marseille, Gooding went out to get his first...
JIMMY SMITH: I'M MOVIN' ON (Blue Note). A peerless organist, Smith deftly fingers and foots his way through some of the smoothest soul this side of Albert Schweitzer. Neatly propelled by Drummer Donald Bailey and spelled by Grant Green's guitar solos, Smith handily consoles his listeners in I'm Movin' On and Back Talk, a surpassing burst of blues...
...even the best is not infallible; even the smoothest of relationships can wrinkle in Washington's political heat. The Secretary's constant scrapping with Congress, though in behalf of Administration policies, became a more serious problem as Johnson's own rapport with the Hill lessened. And like some other high officials, McNamara occasionally made euphoric prophecies about Viet Nam that, while politically appropriate at the moment, later turned into ammunition for Johnson's critics. The most unfortunate boomerang was tossed in the fall of 1963, when McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor predicted that most U.S. troops...