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Mary Ed Porter (as a stand-in for Connie For-slund) stood out as the simpering, wispy daughter Felicity...
Speculation on a possible successor to Vice President Agnew raises the question of how much weight President Nixon places on his choice of a stand-in vice president...
Speculation on a possible successor to Vice President Agnew raises the question of how much weight President Nixon places on his choice of a stand-in vice president...
...sort of thing that Congress intended to encourage. Recovering from a back operation in Arkansas, House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills−without whose support any tax proposal is doomed−said he doubted that the President actually intended to introduce the tax program. His stand-in on Ways and Means, Democratic Representative Al Ullman, fully agreed. "I don't believe that these are serious suggestions," said Ullman. "They are a trial balloon and a weak one." He added that they would fall on "deaf ears in the committee." Congress is in the process of trying to straighten...
...since his Administration has been shaken by scandal, he would have to name a man of respectable background. Beyond that, it is wholly a matter of speculation whether Nixon would prefer a strong nominee who would bolster his Administration but also make him more vulnerable to impeachment, or a stand-in who would be acceptable but lackluster. Despite the official denials that there is any list of candidates, the guessing in Washington does name names. The most commonly cited possibilities...