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...said Richard Nixon last week as both he and the U.S. Congress dug in for a long and fierce struggle over whether the President should be removed from office. At the White House, Nixon told Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick in a rare interview that after "long thought," he had resolved not to resign "under any circumstances...
That also was the report of Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick, who had been invited into the Oval Office a few hours before for an exclusive hour-and-20-minute interview, the first of its kind for more than a year. Kilpatrick looked at the long Nixon fingers for tremors of the kind Kilpatrick sometimes gets himself...
...European politics, business, the church and the press. He talked with, among many others, Italy's Prince Nicolo Pignatelli, the oilman who is president of Gulf Italiana; Spain's Vincente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón; France's Jean-François Revel, author and columnist for the weekly L'Express; and Britain's Roy Hattersley, Minister for European Affairs. "The changes in leadership all over the Continent have implications that go beyond the confines of the countries themselves," says Elson. "I got the sense that this is a bad time for the 'idea...
Lipsyte, a former sports columnist who contributed some of the best prose to appear in the New York Times, has not lost his journalist's instincts. For people concerned about who is minding the nation, he has updated the eternal quest for a hero and a leader. His candidate, Navy Commander Charles Rice, might have been tailored by a market-research computer. A former astronaut and moon walker, Rice is also part Old Testament prophet, New Testament savior, Oliver Cromwell, Brownshirt, Mr. Clean and Vic Tanny...
Still, the strong feeling among newsmen, politicians and lawyers in London is that gagging writs will never again be a reliable device for silencing the press. Said Bernard Levin, a top columnist for the Times of London: "The dam is down beyond any possibility of re-erection." Mail Editor David English echoes the common sentiment among British journalists: "I don't think that after Watergate we could have gone on as before...