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According to conventional wisdom, James Reston of the New York Times ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...
...William Safire left the White House last January to become a columnist for the New York Times, most saw the move as a peace offering from Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to the newly re-elected Administration. On an Op-Ed page dominated by such consistent Nixon critics as James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis, Safire could provide a steady injection of pro-Administration counterpoint. But the new commentator had knocked out exactly one column (on April 16) before the President made his first public admission of White House involvement in the Watergate scandal. Since then, Safire has been forced...
...Cook, executive director of the International Visitors Service Council in Washington, D.C. "They want to see America in depth rather than just the image." As a result, there is increasing demand for offbeat side trips, such as visits to Western cattle ranches, Eastern college campuses and model cities like Reston, Va., or Columbia, Md. Also, as visitors return for second and third trips, they naturally want to see new places. "Florida will be the next new one because of the weather and the beaches," predicts H. David Seegul, president of Manhattan's Travellers International, a leading travel agent...
...James Reston, LL.D., columnist...
With Administration critics like James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis in residence, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times is hardly regarded as congenial reading in the White House. Beginning in April, however, at least two editions a week will seem friendlier. That is when Nixon Speechwriter William Safire leaves the President's house to become a Times columnist. Safire, 43, was a successful public relations man before joining the Government four years ago. "People know I'm a Nixon man," he says. "I always have been. I guess that makes me a centrist...