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...bombing of Hanoi] put together. And that he can't bring himself to talk to you about it. Just can't do it ... But John Mitchell, let me say, will never go to prison. I think that what will happen is that he will put on the damndest defense...
Nixon is not foolish enough to close his eyes or ears to the burgeoning scandal, but he has tried his damndest to close the eyes and ears of the American people. Last Friday, he issued a "speak-no-evil" directive, reinvoking the policy of executive privilege which he had clamped on his aides during the first nine months of the Watergate investigation...
...comedy is never frivolous, though. Faulkner, in accepting his Nobel Prize, stated, "I decline to accept the end of man. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail." Beckett is not so sure. But at least his characters do their damndest to endure...
...powerful argument for tightening up the cloture rule at the beginning of the next session. But the tabling motion was also a handy chance for Senators to record themselves on whichever side seemed politically advisable-without voting on an actual bill. Said a disgusted newsman: "This is the damndest thing I ever saw. That bill hasn't got a chance and everybody knows it. Yet everybody's getting...
Harvard players will be trying the damndest to deny Pa that pleasur