Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family legend, the Teapot Dome scandal of 1924 fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped...
...side. I didn't mind going over to see him, just so long as I got what I wanted." Rogers' legal hero is a legendary Manhattan criminal lawyer named Max Steuer whose clients 50 years ago included Tammany Hall leaders and the Teapot Dome Scandal's Harry Daugherty. "He never raised his voice," says Rogers admiringly, "but he usually...