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...G.O.P. Congressman for foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He's spent a lot of time teaching his district the majesty of the thing and bringing his people along." Though political observers feel that disenchanted Nixonites will stay at home in November, nobody thinks he is in real trouble...
Safire wrote some time ago that he hoped to "become more of an essayist than a columnist - perhaps a slow Swift or a hazy Hazlitt." Well, anyway, hazy...
Died. Lois Long, 73, fashion editor of The New Yorker for more than four decades; in Saratoga, N.Y. A minister's daughter, Long joined The New Yorker in 1925 as "Lipstick," its chatty nightclub columnist. Soon she began pointedly commenting about Fifth Avenue's ladies-wear trade in "On and Off the Avenue," a column that for years she simply signed...
Print journalists generally applauded TV's unblinking coverage. The Tulsa (Okla.) World found the TV scrutiny especially appropriate at a time when "Americans are in a 'show me' mood about politics and public life." New York Times Columnist James Reston was in a dissenting minority of commentators. He rather sourly accused committee members of "making recitations before the TV cameras" and decided that the whole exercise produced "bad law and boring television...
...post is unprecedented. As Columnist Harriet Van Home wrote about the appointment: "Betty Friedan can eat her heart out, but one can't see either Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford setting up a department dealing with the feminine condition." In fact, Giscard at first tried to downgrade the Cabinet post to the head of a women's affairs bureau, but yielded when Giroud refused to accept such a position...