Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a political and personal friend of Kennedy's, traveled to Boston only last month to attend a Kennedy fund-raising dinner. He voted for Long. Nelson, fearing he was in trouble during his re-election bid in November, reportedly sought and received Long's help...
...Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, knows the Pentagon well. For 14 of his 16 years in the House, he served on the appropriations subcommittee handling military spending, and he has shown familiarity with national-security issues as a frequent critic of Democratic defense policies. The chink in Laird's armor is his lack of administrative experience, and last week he moved to close it with an impressive appointment. As his Deputy Secretary of Defense, No. 2 man in the Government's biggest department ($80 billion a year, a military and civilian personnel...
...have been so widely publicized as to leave the general impression that most of the 343 schools with Army, Navy or Air Force ROTC are embattled. Such is not the case. Serious incidents have occurred at the University of California at Berkeley, the universities of Washington, Delaware, Florida Southern, Wisconsin, and Fordham, in addition to the travesty at Boston University...
More than most Presidents-elect, Nixon relied heavily on the supporting cast he has learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration...
Until now, there has been no way to require credit bureaus and the people who run them to behave like sensitive and sympathetic human beings. But "some regulations are vitally necessary," Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire insisted after last week's hearings. To that end, he has promised to introduce legislation next month that would keep credit data confidential, allow people to correct errors in their own credit records, and eliminate irrelevant or outdated information from credit-bureau files...