Word: aboveboard
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...that way, conveying the image of just plain Jerry, hard at work and determined. Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, backed by four campaign aides, he read a brief, low-key statement in a firm, confident voice. Said the President: "I intend to conduct an open and aboveboard campaign"-a pledge that would have seemed superfluous in any but a post-Nixon period...
...here because of my father. Actually, it was my mother." Brown's father, the state's popular onetime Democratic Governor, stepped to the microphone with a cheerful rejoinder: "I just want to say I had something to do with it too." Indeed he had. Political nepotism - aboveboard, unashamed and unabashed - was in fashion again. In Massachusetts, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill III, the 30-year-old son of House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, went from the state legislature (and a seat once held by his father) to become the commonwealth's Lieutenant Governor...
...only meant to be a G.O.P. Tuck, he surely got out of hand. He is currently awaiting trial on charges of distributing a false letter on Edmund Muskie's stationery accusing Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey of sexual misconduct. However dubious some of his antics, Tuck was usually aboveboard. "I was not surreptitious," Tuck insists. "I didn't hide what I did. I never tried to be malicious. It's the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former President were...
...stand in the Union, was all ready to go ahead with plans to sell condoms and vaginal foams at his place of business. He had already been given the legal go-ahead from HSA's lawyer, Harold Rosenweld, who opined that the proposed under-the-counter sales were legally aboveboard. HSA President Arthur Segel had cleared the way by announcing that the aforementioned items would be sold at cut-rates with no profits for HSA. And all Gordon needed to begin his magnanimous project was the high sign from University Attorney General Dan Steiner--who was reserving his judgment...
...testimony went, Lawyer Casey's maneuvers seemed perfectly legal and aboveboard, but there were one or two points that made Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson want to look further. One was his suspicion that the tankers were placed under Panamanian registry to avoid heavy U.S. income taxes. Casey and the other stockholders were only required to pay capital gains taxes at the rate of 25% of their profits...