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TIME has learned of other such devious tactics during the campaign. Charles Colson, who once said that he would "walk over my own grandmother" to help Nixon, recruited young men to pose as Gay Liberationists and wear large George McGovern buttons at rallies for the Democratic candidate, thus linking McGovern with that cause...
Nixon's battle with the press is also a devious, and sometimes petty one. He retaliated against the long-critical Washington Post by granting an exclusive interview to its rival, the Star-News, and the Post's society reporter has been banned from covering White House social functions. Nixon's telecommunications director, Clay Whitehead, has attacked the "elitist gossip" in network news and proposed that local stations be held accountable at license-renewal time for any unbalanced news programming. Suddenly, three groups of Republican businessmen, some with close ties to the Administration, have challenged the licenses...
...Devious Means...
Liberals have infiltrated the seminaries, and it may be that as a result there is a "mildly liberal majority" among the clergy who, through unbelievable tactics, attempt to prevent the election of conservative laymen to the church courts. Such conservatives would call a halt to all the devious means being employed to try to bring about the union against the will of the vast majority of the members...
...apparently moved by Nixon's Six Crises, in which the former vice-president observed: "Voters quickly forget what a man says." The gems of which the editor reminds us--for Vidal is more an editor here than a playwright--are priceless. He brings back Nixon calling Eisenhower "complex and devious...in the best sense of those words," reporting that Ike made him feel "like the little boy caught with jam on his face," and denying that he ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion...