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[US] (con. 1970) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 99: After all those months as a punching bag, Hickel liked the admiration [...] He was a ‘pop’ hero.
at punching bag, n.
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 170: In another age F. Donald Nixon might have been a patent-medicine salesman or a carnival barker.
at barker, n.1
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 275: John Osborne was the bell-cow of the White House press corps.
at bell cow, n.
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 277: Rather had been brought to big-time television news from a Texas station.
at big-time, adj.
[US] (con. 1969) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 158: A report was based on ‘a confidential source’—the Bureau euphemism for wiretapping or bugging.
at bugging, n.2
[US] (con. 1970) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 150: The President had made an offhand comment that students who torch and destroy their campuses [....] were ‘bums’.
at bum, n.3
[US] (con. 1972) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 287: ‘Kicking the press is an art,’ Nixon continued. ‘Your flabby-and-dumb crack was good.’.
at crack, n.1
[US] (con. 1970) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 99: Hickel had begun as the goat of the Cabinet. The media had savaged him.
at goat, n.2
[US] (con. 1972) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 142: He’ll just take the gravy and leave the President all the negatives and the problems.
at gravy, n.
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 353: Nixon knew then that far more ‘heat’ could result.
at heat, n.
[US] (con. 1971) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 306: Haig was furious and had accused Young and me of ‘jobbing a fine military officer’ on ‘nothing but flimsy circumstantial evidence’.
at job, v.3
[US] (con. 1969) J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 123: Nixon was under great political pressure to nominate a ‘lib’ (that [...] was a euphemism for a ‘Jew’ when you’re talking about the Court).
at lib, n.2
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 127: ‘There’s got to be one man in charge over there. Who will it be? Rehnquist?’ ‘He’s not a nut cutter.’.
at nutcutter, n.
[US] J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 59: I telephoned Tricia [...] and invited her to lunch in the White House mess. I wanted our talk to be on my turf.
at turf, n.
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