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...power of the American presidency, but even before Nixon's resignation that concern had been largely dispelled. In Europe and other areas it became obvious that the President-and not the presidency-was under attack. The turning point came last spring, with the release of the first batch of the Watergate tapes. Said a leading member of Britain's Conservative Party: "When we began to hear those tapes, [Nixon's] authority disappeared, and we knew his position would crumble anyway." The final fading of Nixon's presidential magic came with the release of last week...
...major newspapers, the wire services and TV networks, executives had been thinking about the possibility of a sudden vacancy in the White House since the first batch of tape transcripts was released April 30. ABC News President Elmer Lower began looking ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages...
...indictment is correct, the Secretary of the Treasury did not show much familiarity with his own bills. Belatedly realizing that the cash in the box had been issued by the U.S. Treasury after the deposit had supposedly been made, Connally is believed to have hastily replaced it with another batch of bills. Once again, he apparently slipped up. Though these bills were dated prior to the deposit, some of them had not been put into circulation until several months later. Thus investigators concluded that Connally and Jacobsen were lying. Confronted with the evidence, Jacobsen pleaded guilty to one count...
Here is a piece of Frost, written with diffidence and pictured in a large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...
...present, the Med School group is leafletting and distributing petitions outside the Med School, the School of Public Health and the Dental School every morning, and has distributed a batch of buttons that read "we can't eat prestige...