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...Nixon's re-election effort was booting up, Nixon aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman asked Buchanan to launch a secret "plumbers" squad to investigate the President's enemies. But Buchanan spurned the offer, saying it was better to duke it out face to face than deliver a sucker punch. "I have yet to be shown what benefit this would do for the President--or for the rest of us, other than a psychological salve," Buchanan wrote in a July 8, 1971, memo now in the National Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter...
...years. It was here that he built his early career in the Communist Party. And it was to Yekaterinburg that he came, in 1991, to inaugurate his campaign for the presidency. The city has been an auspicious place for him, which is why he returned there last Thursday to launch his bid for re-election...
Instead, he bought about 13% of QVC, the cable-TV retailer that is the Home Shopping Network's prime competitor. But he hadn't quite shaken his yen for upscale properties and in short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share...
AFTER BARELY TWO YEARS OF EXIStence, NetEdge Systems is ready to cash in big. The fast-growing North Carolina company, which makes devices called edge routers that connect computers to high-speed voice and data networks over telephone lines, plans to launch an initial public offering (ipo) of its stock to raise some $40 million in the second half of this year. NetEdge already has more than 100 employees and revenues of about $25 million and expects to show a profit by the end of 1996. The public offering will finance the firm's expansion; it will also boost...
...meeting was led by Harold Ickes, who had just become deputy chief of staff. Now Ickes is again heavily involved in Whitewater damage control. Other advisers want to launch an aggressive campaign of openness that would include releasing all Whitewater files to the press and having the First Lady volunteer to testify to the Senate committee. But Ickes, a close ally of Mrs. Clinton's and the primary manager of the President's re-election campaign, disagrees. He believes that any such strategy is risky and would not prevent the Republicans from keeping Whitewater a live issue throughout the campaign...