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...paper-and the hard-charging Hersh-off the assassination trail? Government and corporate officials occasionally try to "lock up" news organizations with strategically placed not-for-publication disclosures. In the President's case, it is unlikely that he spoke out of guile. "I don't know how devious the President is," answers Ron Nessen, "and I'm not going to ask him." Managing Editor Rosenthal sees no skulduggery in the President's remark. Says he: "How did he know that we would respect the off-the-record part...
...book is nominally organized around seven themes common to women's lives. These themes all reduce to one major theme, that of power--the contradictory attractions of power and passivity, the role of caretaker and the woman's devious attempts to turn it into a powerful role, woman's retreat into writing to compensate for the power she lacks in the real world...
Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing. Perhaps the deepest flaw lies in the method: the Viet Nam War is too convoluted, too devious to be examined in a style of compilation without comment. And righteous indignation may tend to blind the documentary film maker to his prime task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects...
...aides who were risking their own freedom to protect him. Some jurors might refuse to convict in the belief that it would be unfair to imprison the aides while Nixon escapes criminal prosecution because of President Ford's pardon. The Nixon on the tapes, in fact, sounds more devious than the men on trial...
Saffran even envisions annexation of the Harvard Young Democrats, a group he says is "apolitical." He said Saturday, "I could see trying to push our point of view, take over, without being devious...