Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked in Nixon campaigns through 1952, later became implicated in a federal conflict-of-interest investigation. Though he had not been visible in the Nixon entourage for years, all at once he was installed in an office five floors above the G.O.P. Com mittee headquarters. Calls from the White House came in on Chotiner's phone, not Bliss's. Unwilling to continue as a figurehead, Bliss chose to return to his Akron insurance business...
through next year's congressional election. Thus, when Bliss announced his resignation last week under unsubtle White House pressure, the Democrats were de lighted and many Republicans disturbed...
...spokesman to project vitality. Blind in one eye, squat of build, chubby of face and soporific as a speaker, Bliss, at 61, could hardly meet that requirement. Nonetheless, the rationale for wanting him out was somewhat specious. National chairmen rarely serve as showboats, and when a party controls the White House, its public image lives there. After Republican Governors and national committeemen protested, Nixon eased off. In January, he invited Bliss in for a chat, which ended with the announcement that the chairman would stay on indefinitely...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the practice has "become like a parody on the old Negro spiritual Take Your Troubles to the Lord. Everyone brings his troubles to city hall...
Central Casting would have to type Berlinguer as a white-collar Communist rather than a peasant. His lawyer grandfather was a Sardinian republican in the days of the Italian monarchy; his lawyer father was a socialist anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...