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What better example of the "suggestive influence of the unexpressed"? In form, this statement is identical to the thousands of thinly disguised imperatives that follow, each heavy with the weight of the unsaid: "In addition, every undergraduate must satisfy the requirements of an approved field of concentration"; "A student will be promoted at the end of any term upon the basis of total final credits accumulated"; "A student in an honors program may have his work judged unworthy of honors in the field, but worthy of a degree...
...feelings; but he was not going to sit down and talk about how he felt. When she suggested that maybe it would be a good idea to lay their cards out on the table, to come up front, Beach said he thought there were somethings better left unsaid...
Moderate Republicans also were critical. At the National Governors' Conference along Lake Tahoe, Michigan's William Milliken said of Nixon: "If there's anything that remains unsaid or unknown, he ought to say it, no matter how painful or destructive to him. It has dribbled out-a little each day." Washington's Daniel Evans agreed: "Good grief, it's painful. I wince every time there's a new statement from the White House. I want to believe the President, but I find myself more and more distressed every day as new information comes...
What went on inside Watergate between Mssrs. Liddy, Hung, Dean, Gray, Stans, Chapin, Colson, McCord, Segretti, Magruder, Haldeman and Mitchell, and doubtless others, will take a legal expert to unravel. What stares us in the face, yet remains unsaid (either from motives of delicacy or hesitancy to deface Uncle Sam, or else perhaps from fear of reprisal) is that in so large an operation, the boss himself must have been informed, or if not, his ignorance is no less culpable...
Fortunately for the newsmen-and for their audiences back home-the Follies represented only one aspect of official press policy. Veteran Viet Nam reporters agree that almost everything distorted or left unsaid at the Follies was readily obtainable in the field. More important, the U.S. military was usually willing to transport reporters to the action. Says Don Wise of the London Daily Mirror: "You were taken wherever you wanted to go, to see whatever you wanted to see." Horst Faas, who won two Pulitzer Prizes as an A.P. photographer, agrees that it was easier to cover the war than...