Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief counsel, Samuel Dash, 48, who heads a staff of 39. Dash's credentials are impeccable: he served as a district attorney in Philadelphia, teaches law at Georgetown, and wrote a book on electronic surveillance, The Eavesdroppers. Working alongside him is Chief Minority Counsel Fred D. Thompson, a scourge of moonshiners as a federal prosecutor in Tennessee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Doctor of Gonzo Journalism, is like the Creature from the Bottom of the Deep. Dripping with the swampy, polluted waters of the seventies, shaking off the slime and lurching out on to the land, he is by now one of the most exciting journalistic voices in America. As a victim of our time he has learned to speak its language--of drugs, of violent energy, of The Fear. And then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms...
...dismissal of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, those two dour Germanic guardians of the Oval Office, seemed mandatory. Neither wanted to quit. Haldeman, a former J. Walter Thompson ad agency vice president from Los Angeles, had participated in all of Nixon's campaigns since 1956, when he was an advanceman for Nixon's re-election as Vice President. He had become probably the second most powerful man in the Government because he determined just who could see the President or whose memos would reach Nixon's desk. Ehrlichman, a Seattle bond lawyer who had been a U.C.L.A. classmate of Haldeman...
...page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole Jr., another J. Walter Thompson product and a top Ehrlichman assistant since 1969, will take on added duties...
...undersigned are professors in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute. Kenneth M. Setton Homer A. Thompson Morton White Harold F. Cherniss Marshall Clagett James F. Gilliam