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...underside of Nixon's career. He does not praise the President's foreign policy or celebrate his kindness to children and dogs. On the other hand, he also scrupulously avoids the kind of titillating invasion of privacy -the tears, the booze, the beating of fists on the carpet-that Woodward and Bernstein trade on in The Final Days (TIME, March 29). The result is a massive, careful encyclopedia that sorts out all existing Nixon-era evidence-the tapes, hearings. Justice Department documents, civil-suit depositions, newspaper and magazine accounts-and puts them in order for the final judgment...
...scenes Woodward and Bernstein sketch are by now legend, cackled over everywhere: Nixon praying on his knees with Kissinger, then pounding the carpet and sobbing; Pat Nixon spurning her husband's sexual advances- for 12 years; Nixon walking the White House halls at night, talking to portraits of former presidents...
...answer, yes, they are, in fact many of them also have been hit with foolish warnings. But for the past year and a half that I've been a shop steward, I have been raising an issue that the University is especially anxious to keep swept under the carpet. I am speaking of the grievances I have raised about the non-posting of job opportunities. I believe it is mainly because of raising this subject that I have become so unpopular with management...
...Kissinger thought he had finished. But the President did not rise. He was weeping. And then, still sobbing, Nixon leaned over, striking his fist on the carpet, crying, 'What have I done? What has happened...
...Kissinger touched the President, and then held him, tried to console him, to bring rest and peace to the man who was curled on the carpet like a child...