Word: vicuna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coat,* some very sophisticated people said, "This is going to be very tough for you." I said, "I don't think so. I think the people of New York are smart enough to know that somebody is not going to sidetrack me by giving me a vicuna coat." [As for the gifts to friends and associates], that used to be considered to be a decent thing. A lot of people repeat from the Lord's Prayer, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." But ideas have gotten so distorted about money that people cannot conceive...
While clearly petty compared with the political-corruption charges, such gifts do raise serious ethical questions. President Eisenhower's top aide, Sherman Adams, resigned in 1958 after it became known he had accepted gifts including a vicuna coat from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 from the Supreme Court when it was revealed that he had accepted $20,000 from a foundation headed by Financier Louis Wolfson, for which he was an adviser...
...handsome, well-spoken Richardson is, at 53, an ascending force in Washington. Born into a Boston Brahmin family and educated at Harvard (LL.B., '47), Richardson made a political name for himself as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts by prosecuting Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, provider of Sherman Adams' famous vicuna coat, on tax-evasion charges. A Rockefeller supporter in 1968, Richardson nonetheless was invited to Washington as an Under Secretary of State, and his cool, analytical grasp of complex situations attracted the attention of Nixon. Such tough thinking seemed all too rare at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...