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Immediately, problems surfaced in the form of the "Berlin Wall," an insurmountable barrier to communication with the President guarded by the ferocious watchdog team of John Ehrlichmann and H.R. Haldeman, whom Mollenhoff characterized as "inexperienced meddlers pulling political levers." Mollenhoff's unsuccessful early attempts to gain access to the Oval Office foreshadowed his later inability to implement any real reforms within the executive branch. "I had an opportunity from the first to view the real problems: excessive secrecy and an extreme political motivation that dominated their thinking," Mollenhoff said. These obsessions and the Nixon team's unshakeable belief in executive...
...unfolding of events which finally climaxed in Nixon's resignation. His position was ticklish; as a former government official he was not always favorably regarded by other journalists, and as a journalist he was avoided by loyal government officials. Even so, Mollenhoff did have an unusual amount of personal access to several Watergate personages--John Dean, Richard Kleindienst, Jeb Magruder--and he also had a clearer idea than most journalists had of the White House hierarchy and the indicators which pointed the finger at Haldeman and Ehrlichman. "Money was important, but only a few reporters wrote about...
...Committee to Review Equal Access will meet to study the implementation and effects of equal-access admissions adopted last year on the recommendation of the Strauch Report, Dean Rosovsky told the Faculty yesterday...
Palay said he expects the final figures to be "somewhere from $800 to $1000." The Harvard effort has been more successful than fund raising campaigns on other area campuses because the House system provides ready access to students, he said...
Developments have not been linear; there are fewer newspapers today than there were 50 years ago, and new forms threaten older ones. The staggering audiences for mass communications have access to paperback books, Xerox copies, photography, films and a variety of other forms. Millions of Americans watch or hear the news at least three times a day-before work, at dinnertime and before sleep. Commercials, discussion shows, documentaries all provide further information...