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...Columnist James Reston of the New York Times led the chorus of criticism: "Isn't this a dangerous precedent? ... If CBS will pay this kind of money for Mr. Haldeman, won't other big shots or notorious characters demand their price...
...otherwise would completely ruin Safire's own credibility. He assails Nixon's loathing of the press, his taping and wiretapping, his lying about Watergate. Yet even about these seemingly inexcusable Nixon transgressions Safire tries to plant redeeming doubts. Formerly a public relations man and now an erratic columnist for the New York Times, Safire seems to share his former boss's conspiratorial view of the press. According to Safire, it was "hatred of the press that slowly, steadily, and then suddenly pulled Nixon down." But Safire does not make clear whether he thinks Nixon's enmity...
...Have you hugged your kid today?" asks one of the new columns in some 20 South Carolina newspapers. The columnist is Nancy Thurmond, 28, Miss South Carolina of 1966, and the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, 72. Though she admits that she is a newcomer to child rearing (her own kids are only 11 months, 2 and 3), Nancy has completed three installments of her feature titled "Mother's Medicine," and hopes that her advice will "make the day go better" for some of her husband's constituents...
...Wicker was an evewitness during most of the four days' uprising at Attica. The inmates knew of him as a New York Times columnist who offer supported civil rights and prison reform in his writing. And they requested that he and 13 others, including radical lawyer William Kunstler and Black Panther Party leader Bobby Scale, form an observers' committee through which the inmates might negotiate with the state. Four years later the Grand Jury has finished its work, and Wicker anger and despair have culminated in A Time To Die, his personal chronicle of the Attica weekend September 9 through...
...President for a favor-an appointment with Moley. The Brain Trust that he organized shaped Roosevelt's historic policies, but finding himself opposed to massive expansion of federal authority, Moley left the Administration in September 1933 and later broke with the Democratic Party. As author and Newsweek columnist, Moley backed Republicans Willkie, Goldwater and Nixon for President...