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Even the Butterfield explanation of the rationale for the President's clandestine taping?that it was purely for a historical record???was questioned by a former presidential aide, who had not been aware of the bugging. This aide insisted that it was Nixon's "paranoia about the press" that motivated his taping. Explained this official: "The President has had a bad press for a long time. He ordered the taps and bugs to keep his own record of what happened in his offices, to tell what he considered to be the true story." Yet it is not at all clear...
...from the nearby Arden Hills Swim Club. Not taking kindly to defeat, Arnold Spitz promptly turned his young son over to Arden Hills Coach Sherman Chavoor, who has been Mark's mentor?officially and unofficially?ever since. The boy learned fast. At age ten he set his first U.S. record???31 sec. in the 50-yd. butterfly?a record that still stands today for the nine-ten age group...
...Heath plunged into the task of forming his government, much of Britain and a good part of the outside world celebrated his victory. On the strength of his election, the British stock market made its largest one-day surge on record???a rise of 23.8 on the Financial Times index. The value of the pound climbed sharply. Congratulations flooded into No. 10. The Western Europeans were optimistic because they believed that Heath would press harder to bring Britain into the Common Market. The Australians were delighted because he had pledged that he would retain a defense force east of Suez...
...Fanfare. To the enduring credit of his constituents, Ed Brooke was elected last November on his record???as a tough attorney general, as an exciting campaigner, as a Republican running in a year when millions of voters across the country felt a degree of disenchantment with the Johnson Administration...
With brilliant timing and tactics, Richard Nixon had used the meeting with Rockefeller to position himself on the side of new departures for the 19605, broadening his potential appeal to independent voters, without losing the political value of identification with the Eisenhower Administration record???a record that got a considerable boost last week from the announcement of a billion-dollar budget surplus and the successful shot of the new Polaris missile from a submerged submarine (see Defense). Yet by easing the G.O.P. platform in the directions that Nelson Rockefeller had urged, Nixon largely canceled out the political appeal...