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...blunderers at Watergate. If they hadn't been so clumsy, America would never have known about things like this." Declared former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch, a longtime Nixon associate: "I'm literally astonished." Ousted Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel observed wryly that his problem was not being overheard at the White House but being heard at all. Nevertheless, he thought anybody talking to a President should be aware of any taping "as a matter of self-protection." Republican House Leader Gerald Ford said that he saw "nothing wrong with the practice." Quipped former Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole...
...Jealous Ear, his first novel, is about a boy's attempt to piece together his past and future from glimpses through door cracks, snatches of overheard conversations, strange odors and intimate brushes with the flesh...
Sexual stereotypes still exist--to which nearly every woman in the University can attest with at least one anecdote--and hurt women. A graduate student in math overheard a distinguished visiting professor seriously remark when he learned that there were eight women in the department: "But women can't do math...
...power with a reputation as an effective manager, has bungled the affair so badly as to prove himself an incompetent executive. Many businessmen feel that he chose his key subordinates unwisely and gave them too much power. "The people around Nixon were goddam fools," a California retailer was overheard to mumble. The mistakes were compounded, businessmen think, by an administrative scheme that kept the President isolated and uninformed-something no corporate executive could afford...
...that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed the tap on Halperin only last week-and added the incredible news that all the tapes and logs of the overheard conversations had mysteriously disappeared from the files of both the FBI and the Department of Justice...