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...asked John Ehrlichman, then White House counsel, to issue an 87-page pamphlet titled A Reference Booklet on Conflict of Interest. The pamphlet advised all Cabinet members to liquidate their investments and put the proceeds into blind trusts or diversified mutual funds. "We don't want any whiff of questions," said Ehrlichman. "No member of the Cabinet is going to know what he owns...
...foreign end of Richard Nixon's White House had and has some of the same spirit under Henry Kissinger. At first there was even a whiff of it in domestic matters, when Pat Moynihan, a rollicking Irish professor who dared break open champagne in his office, held sway, devising the family assistance plan and nurturing revenue sharing...
...these satisfactions an occasional confirmation of the law's venality, a whiff of burning plastic as Southern California chars at the edges, and Archer's own pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19 reruns. Archer's middle-aged tiredness is the necessary anchor in reality; the reader is not Billy Batson any more, and he will not believe Captain Marvel...
Ulstermen have never taken naturally to the political center, if only because they like a little fire and brimstone from their politicians. Moderates, like Ulster's former (1963-69) Unionist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, too frequently seemed like moral Milquetoasts, beset by a fatal whiff of goodness. Now one encouraging sign is that both the Alliance and Labour parties have almost equal backing from Catholics and Protestants. Recent Alliance recruits include a number of Ulster's senior political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local...
...reggae. Johnny Rivers' Rockin' Pneumonia-Boogie Woogie Flu is reggae, although, title to the contrary, his L.A. Reggae album lacks true reggae's eccentric upside-down shuffle beat. Three Dog Night's Black and White qualifies and Harry Nilsson's Coconut (1972) has a whiff of the island sound...