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...like living on a volcano. Those of us who sought to keep the Government going had no idea when another eruption would start. For nearly two months the torrent of revelations seemed unending. Among the most startling was the disclosure that Nixon had been tape-recording conversations since early 1971.1 learned about it soon after Haig became chief of staff. He told me to be careful about anything I said in the Oval Office; it contained a voice-activated recording system...
...shouldn't the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room be wired and the fact announced that all conversations will be recorded? (Ultra secrets could be whispered in a bug-free cubicle in some other White House corner.) Then set up another rule: that no tape will be released for 50 years or while any participant is alive. Two immediate advantages leap to mind. Presidents might clean up their language. Visitors would not feel betrayed...
Fairfield's citizens blew whistles, banged pots and rang cowbells to shoo the flocks. The starlings stayed. Aerial explosives failed to scare them off. A captured starling, rumor has it, was strangled, his death squeals recorded, and the tape played over loudspeakers. The birds were only briefly gulled...
Well, forget it. The Christian Broadcasting Network means to wash all that away in a tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...
...both knew, of course, that Nixon's authority was deteriorating daily. The issue of whether Nixon should surrender tape recordings from his office was reaching a climax at the very moment war broke out. New indictments spawned by Watergate had been handed down. Nixon was about to lose his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, in a scandal concerning alleged payoffs...