Word: sworn
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Another key post for which Nixon wanted a man he knew intimately was that of Attorney General. He settled on John Mitchell, the dour-looking lawyer whom Nixon once called "the heavyweight" because of his acumen and administrative talents. Mitchell had sworn vehemently to anyone who would listen that he would take no post in the Administration. Nixon surprised many who remembered his 1960 campaign by heeding most of his manager...
...world's monetary arrangements. In varying degrees, that view was echoed in France, West Germany, Italy and Switzerland. More and more, the experts talk of the urgent need to convene another Bretton Woods-style conference, perhaps in Washington, as soon as possible after the Nixon Administration is sworn...
...Democrats, of course, had substantial support from numerous dissidents who had sworn after the Chicago convention that they would never vote for Humphrey. As the campaign wore on, they evolved a sort of tentative sympathy and affection for the Vice President that was only sharpened by their accumulating distaste for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. In the last month of the campaign, former Mc-Carthy workers, especially those old enough to recall Humphrey's earlier, fiery days in the Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some...
...prisons, re lated mainly by an artist and onetime air force lieutenant named Harold Strachan. During three years as a political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks from an electrotherapy machine. The Mail collected an affidavit from Strachan, and sworn corroborating statements from two warders and two ex-prison ers, to back up a sensational series of stories and an editorial demand for a government inquiry into prison conditions...
...evidence against him. His Re publican opponent, Shelby Highsmith, accused him of taking a $1,500 bribe eight years ago to drop bad-check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test was inconclusive, the Herald was convinced that the other man's story was true...