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...point drop in the public's approval of Nixon's performance, to a new low of 25%, while Harris reported a three-point slide in its rating, to 26%. Even the President's support among political conservatives appeared to be fading (see story page 15). Conservative Columnist George F. Will wrote that the one-quarter of the public that still approves of the President is not a conservative bloc. Instead, "it is largely an inattentive bloc of people who support Presidents, no matter who, no matter what...
...there are more applicants than ever with legal backgrounds; the most popular elective course is "The News and the Law." In Washington, few of the newsmen regularly covering the Supreme Court a decade ago held law degrees. Now half of the dozen regulars do. Other capital reporters, like Hearst Columnist Marianne Means, have enrolled in law school...
Nixon partisans who accuse the press of recklessness in its Watergate coverage have been getting reinforcement from unlikely places. Columnist Joseph Kraft, an Administration "enemy" whose home telephone was once tapped, last week wrote of the "spirit of rivalrous competition and self-important narcissism now so rampant in the fourth estate." Managing Editor Howard Simons of the Washington Post, the most tenacious newspaper on the Watergate trail, spoke recently about "shark frenzy"-the urge among some newsmen "to rush in to get a bite of that bleeding body in the water...
...reading Merle Miller's current bestseller Plain Speaking is Margaret Truman Daniel. Annoyed by Miller's publication of his conversations with her father, the late President Harry Truman, taped in 1961-62, Margaret has ignored the complimentary copy sent her by the publishers. Talking to Knight Newspapers Columnist Vera Glaser last week, Margaret said: "I don't like people riding my coattails," a reference to her own bestseller Harry S. Truman, which appeared in 1972. Her main objection: "Dad wrote Plain Speaking, not Miller. This man has just taken tapes and strung them together...
Otten conceded that the vicious parochialism of most newspapers in competing for scoops goes against a concerted effort to disseminate the news to the public. And syndicated columnist Jack Anderson's burning desire to publish dope on Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton's (D-Mo.) use of drugs only led to a rash and premature account, Otten said...