Word: tricksters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, a number of newsmen wonder about the future. As President, of course, Ford will hardly have the time to cultivate journalists as he once did. Says Lisagor: "I can't picture him becoming a devious man, a trickster, but he may become more inaccessible." Says John Osborne of the New Republic: "I'm waiting and seeing." But one journalist has high expectations. Says Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President Kennedy and now a roving editor for France's L'Express: "The intent is there. The competence is there. I think the thing...
...Nixon's men kept walking into Washington courtrooms to face justice. Dwight L. Chapin, 33, once the President's appointments secretary, was given a term of 10 to 30 months for lying to a federal grand jury about his role in directing Donald Segretti, the political dirty trickster of Nixon's 1972 campaign. Chapin said that he would appeal his case to the Supreme Court if need be. (Chapin is the fifth former White House aide or consultant to be sentenced to jail. Three others-John W. Dean III, Frederick LaRue and Jeb Stuart Magruder-have pleaded...
...lawyer, disbarment can mean disaster. Last week convicted Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti started to serve his maximum-six-month sentence in Lompoc Prison Camp 45 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, Calif. Declared Lawyer Segretti plaintively: "Four months in Lompoc is nothing to me compared with being disbarred. What would...
...Clifford Irving must pass his now dusty "Con Man of the Year" award to another deserving trickster, Richard Nixon...
...film shows several of the speeches Malcolm made while he was a Black Muslim, including the one in which he said, "President Kennedy is a trickster. Black people put him in office and he's got time to take a stand in Vietnam, but not against racism." In the integrationist era of the early 1960's, Malcolm's words were anathema to the mass of blacks and their leaders. He was denounced as a "devil" and a "hate monger." After Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Malcolm said. "It's just the chickens coming home to roost," a statement with which...