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...addition, the committee staff said that part of the cost of other improvements should be counted as taxable income by Nixon. For example, at Key Biscayne, a concrete shuffleboard court was destroyed to make room for a Secret Service command post. It could have been replaced by one of equal quality for $400. Instead, the General Services Administration spent $2,000 for a much more elegant terrazzo court. The staff decided that Nixon should be taxed on the $ 1,600 difference...
...involvement with the planning and execution of all military matters before the war, that simply did not wash. Elazar-who promptly tendered his resignation along with Major General Eliahu Zeira, the Chief of Military Intelligence, three of Zeira's top assistants and the chief of the southern regional command-declared that he had not been given "a fair deal." How could the commission blame him for not calling up the reserves and not blame Dayan, who operated on the same information as he? "One can only conclude," Elazar went on, "that the commission did not apply the same yardstick...
...barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people's interaction is building towards a catastrophe: the destruction of Buon Yun and the American...
...standardization--of texts and assignments--will be no answer anyway unless the structuring and presentation of writing assignments is done with some ingenuity. If there's someone in a position to flex his influence sagaciously, he should certainly put (if necessary) a tyrannically gifted teacher of writing in command of Expos. Evans, a very respected scholar, does not teach in the course, as far as I know. Slingerland (who does) is, as far as I know, just another graduate student working on a thesis like many of the rest of us. Whoever appointed her to such a time-consuming...
Inevitably, the President is the focus, the essence of the crisis of the regime, the linchpin of its entire structure. The character of a regime always reflects and expresses the character of its leader. It is he who appoints his executive staff. If he does not explicitly command what his aides do and agents do, they in any event do what they sense and believe he wants them to do. The captain is responsible for his ship, the commander for his army. And Mr. Nixon has explicitly recognized this responsibility...