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Just out of college, with a brief speech writing stint for the lieutenant governor's office her only political experience, Kelley launched her candidacy for the state legislature...
...Miller's stint at shuttle diplomacy had its roots in 1959 when he joined the foreign service. But he had not always been set on a career in the State Department's pin-striped ranks...
...never dreamed of working at Harvard until they offered me a job," Crooks recalls. The timely offer came upon graduation, enabling him to support his family and accept a scholarship to graduate school. After a two-year stint teaching at West Point in lieu of service during the Korean War, Crooks says he was again solicited to come back as director of the Summer School in 1956. He's been here ever since...
...started his career by taking over his father's bean-and-seed-processing business in 1949 and doubling profits during the next 18 years. He went on to hold top positions in the agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last...
...lapidary cross-examination of Democratic U.S. Representative Bertram Podell of Brooklyn, who confessed on the witness stand to conspiracy charges, and his relentless hammering away at undercover cops on the take established the leitmotivs of his career: the passionate prosecution of public corruption and organized crime. While serving a stint in the Justice Department during the Ford Administration, he completed his gradual metamorphosis from a Robert Kennedy Democrat to a registered Republican...