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Last year Nixon, still possessing only 4 letters, went up against McGovern (5). Was it the Gallup Polls that scared Nixon about the election of '72, or was it his name? Why did Nixon feel he had to tap phones, infiltrate opponents' campaigns, and manufacture phony newsletters? What was he so afraid of? Could it be that he understood mathematical history--and tried desperately to get around...
...confusing at first. But the rest of the room reveals a unifying theme--that of the religious group known at Harvard as the Divine Light Mission. An array of framed photographs of a baby-faced 15-year-old guru smiles out at visitors, inviting them to tap a superfocused sunlight within each individual: the religion of the perfect spiritual master Guru Maharaj...
This admission that Nixon authorized the wiretapping operation, which intercepted the phones of some newsmen, apparently renders "inoperative" past denials by the White House that reporters' telephones had been tapped, as first reported by TIME (March 5). TIME has also learned that not all the taps were stopped in 1971; some were continued until the Supreme Court decision against them last June. Moreover, Justice Department officials contend the taps did not plug leaks. Said one Justice official: "The first tap brought a lot of garbage about love affairs and trysts...
...When you tap deeply into this source," Chadwick said, "It's an overflowing of love--not an emotion, but a power deep inside each person. It doesn't discriminate between people; you have to open yourself up to feel...
...haul included photographs of Democratic documents as well as illegally intercepted telephone conversations. Liddy told him, McCord testified, that Mitchell "liked the 'takes' [photos]" of documents and wanted more of them made. The burglars returned to the Watergate on June 17 to repair one telephone tap that was not working properly and also because "Mr. Mitchell wanted a room bug installed in Mr. O'Brien's office in order to transmit not only telephone conversations but conversations out of the room itself." Lawrence O'Brien was then chairman of the Democratic National Committee...