Word: hush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least his case in the public perception. It should not. Taping conversations on the sly is not polite. It is often morally wrong. But the fact that he taped his conversations did not destroy Nixon's presidency. It was what he said in those conversations-his talk of hush money, his coaching of the cover-up and his tone of cunning and low spite...
Herbert Kalmbach, 60, Republican Party fund raiser and Nixon's personal attorney. Collected hush money for Watergate burglars. Pleaded guilty to breaking campaign-contribution laws, served six months. Regained right to practice law in 1977. Now partner in Hillsdale Associates, Santa Ana, Calif., real estate firm...
Anthony Ulasewicz, 63, former New York City policeman and White House gumshoe whose street lingo spiced up Senate Watergate hearings. Arranging hush-money payments, he made so many secretive phone calls from booths that he wore bus driver's money changer on his belt. He called distributing the cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony...
...breast of his dark suit, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev slowly made his way though the lilacs and carnations to the podium. "Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan's proposal, made earlier this month...
...masters say the best thing is for them to quickly huddle at their private monthly meetings and continue the search for consistency among the Houses. The is hush and hold your breath. With this year as a reasonable indication it's better to exhale...