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...Administration intended to conduct foreign policy "as openly as possible" and in ways that reflect "traditional American values." In the same spirit, he prohibited his staff from having secretaries secretly record or monitor telephone conversations. The practice was common in the Nixon and Ford administrations (New York Times Columnist William Safire dubbed the transcripts "the dead-key scrolls"). Carter liked Vance's order so much that he extended it to the White House; other Cabinet members are expected to follow suit...
...Columnist Art Buchwald is in favor of the sport, especially the two-cheek variation he learned in Paris. Says...
...better financial page, the Post, better in sports), but in fact they serve quite different cities with different needs. In a one-industry town, the Post excels in its reporting of Congress and the bureaucracies. In a city more than half black, it covers black news extensively, and in Columnist William Raspberry has discovered a reporter able to write honestly as a black rather than as self-appointed spokesman for all blacks...
Overall, the Post is better written with a pervading sense of self-deprecating irony. The Times, like a baseball manager who sends in a designated hitter, achieves its lighter effects with designated humorists: Israel Shenker, who merrily wanders the halls of academe, or Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial...
...problem: the scheduled cover story on how President-elect Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale as his running mate had been written by one of the missing, Reeves. Brady asked him if he could use the story. Reeves refused. After a frantic search, Brady settled on a piece by Syndicated Columnist Nick Thimmesch, describing how John Ehrlichman spent his last days before jail, which had already run in part in Potomac, the Washington Post's Sunday supplement...