Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...none of the Georgia political chums Jimmy Carter brought with him to Washington has found himself the subject of more attention, flattering or otherwise, than Hamilton Jordan, the young (33), feet-up presidential pal and political strategist who is the White House's closest equivalent to a chief of staff. Last week was particularly grim for Jordan, both personally and professionally. Late in the week, he was hurriedly summoned home to Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White...
...direct federal contracts to people and companies that said "thank you" in cash. Other Congressmen and many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as "Floodgate." The House ethics committee is expected this week to name a special counsel and staff for a congressional investigation of Flood, who has so far come under investigation by at least eight separate U.S. Attorneys' offices...
...April 30, 1973, Richard Nixon told a national TV audience that he was reluctantly accepting the resignations of "two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," White House Chief of Staff H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. The two, who were good friends in Washington and had known each other since student days at U.C.L.A., are both now serving prison terms for their part in the Watergate coverup. Since Haldeman's new book, The Ends of Power, blames Nixon for both launching and covering up Watergate, TIME asked Ehrlichman, himself the author...
...singular determination to acquire ever-deepening levels of knowledge and understanding, despite some very formidable obstacles. The opening scene loses no time in explaining why the cards will be stacked against Gavino for the better part of his life. Storming into Gavino's grammar school classroom, shepherd's staff in hand, Efisio demands custody of his son. He tells Gavino's awestruck teacher that the boy is more urgently needed in the fields with the family flock than behind a desk with a book, summing up his view of education by declaring, "There's no such thing as compulsory education...
Many of the pleasures of Padre, Padrone come from the Tavianis' imaginative use of classic gimmicks to punctuate Gavino's story. One such ploy uses the author Ledda himself to introduce the movie--he hands a shepherd's staff to the actor portraying his father--and to deliver the epilogue to his own story. Another device comes when the young Gavino (Fabrizio Forte) curses a goat for repeatedly defecating into his milk pail--and the animal responds in a surly feminine voice...