Word: claire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterly resented social slights offered him by men like Eisenhower and Rockefeller. Most important, White's book includes an absorbing day-by-day account, based on personal interviews, of what the President and the men around him-especially General Alexander Haig and Lawyers Leonard Garment and James St. Clair-were doing during the final weeks of the crisis. For some days, White says, Haig was in fact the country's "Acting President" as he maneuvered to help bring about a resignation, while the moody Nixon veered between defensive anger and despair...
...presidency a self-serving fraud? Breslin, perhaps unfairly, contends that Texan Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's constitutional expert, simply learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt as he seemed. White, quoting another Nixon lawyer, Leonard Garment, offers the most plausible clue. "There was this wishful non-knowingness," Garment recalled. "We didn't want to get together and put all the pieces together. We were afraid...
With one out in that disastrous eighth, Shane St. Clair reached first on a scratch single that trickled past third baseman Fran Cronin. Ken Zend then drilled Holt's third pitch over the left field fence on one hop for a ground rule double, St. Clair going to third on the play...
Rossellini's Palsan (1946), plus Clair's La Tour, Thursday, March...
Assistant Professor Clair Garmen is incredulous, noting that other students in last year's class had no complaints. He admits that he was never "totally satisfied" with giving students A's simply for completing assignments, but "students now need good grades on their records to get jobs...