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...President had spent long days in mulling over his line of attack. On Aug. 7 Nixon awoke at 2 a.m., took a notebook from his bedside table and wrote a six-page outline of the main points he wanted to make. That evening he sailed on the Potomac for two hours aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia with his favorite speechwriter, Raymond Price. The following day he asked his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged...
Oliver Twist appeared at the classroom door, empty notebook in his outstretched hand. "Please, Sir. I want some more...
...McCarthy hearings, warned: "Perhaps we should never televise a hearing until we are as completely adjusted to television as to our newspapers, until such time as no judge, no juror and no witness is appalled, dismayed or frightened by the camera, any more than by a reporter's notebook...
...displayed what Senator Joseph Montoya called a "hazy memory," she recalled that she had typed "maybe eight" Democratic telephone conversations that had been tapped at Watergate. When the plot was discovered, she helped her boss shred any paper with his handwriting on it. Then she fed her own notebook into the machine. But she testified that she could not remember ever saying that she had committed perjury for Liddy, as charged by two depositions in the Democrats' suit...
...Dulles could be casually talked into releasing the Yalta papers for the public good; or when John Kennedy, just back from the Vienna summit, would regale friends with stories of what it was like to sit across from the table-pounding Nikita Khrushchev; or when Lyndon Johnson, with his notebook of secret papers on the Six-Day War, would read from it of an evening to visiting Governors or favored millionaires. None of it seemed to do any harm, and some of the knowledge may have helped...