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...member of Nader's task force supported himself in part by serving as part-time superintendent of an apartment building. Two others wangled rent-free rooms as caretakers. William Howard Taft IV, a great-grandson of President Taft, who is in his second year at Harvard Law School, lived on his savings. Edward Cox, 21, took a few days off to visit a girl friend while her father was winning the Republican nomination for President. Cox had met Tricia Nixon, now 22, in Manhattan at a Chapin School dance, and they have been going out together "more or less...
...sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers of all are the migrant workers. Thousands of them were stranded without pay in what is normally their most profitable season...
Smith has attended every convention since 1944; he supported Dewey, Taft and Goldwater. He now "leans" toward Nixon, though "I'm not a zealot for him like some members of the delegation. I think that people who've been in the political process as I have are comfortable with Dick Nixon, I've always trusted him and felt grateful to him, I could feel this way about Rockefeller or Reagan if I knew them better, but I don't, There's the old saying here-stay with a friend...
...moment the plethora of polls and columnists' guesses, the chances of the delegates ever getting around to a second ballot are historically unlikely. The last time it happened at a GOP convention was 1948, when it took Governor Dewey three ballots to defeat Harold Stassen and Robert A. Taft...
...counseled George Washington.* The fifth, Roger Taney, helped Andrew Jackson. Associate Justice David Davis, Lincoln's close friend and executor, advised the Civil War President, while Louis Brandeis was called in by Woodrow Wilson during several World War I crises. Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft, in Fortas' words, "performed extensive advisory services for Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...