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...noted that the conciliatory steps demanded by many Democrats had already been taken by him in private, and he assailed those in the U.S. who "have become accustomed to thinking that whatever our Government says must be false and whatever our enemies say must be true." Kissinger readily conceded afterward that "a very major objective" of the President's speech was to "compose the domestic disharmony...
...Angeles hotel. Seven newspaper, wire-service and television reporters, all selected because they had once known Hughes, sat confronting microphones, cameras and a small telephone-amplifying box, which broadcast what was said to be Hughes' voice. For 2 hrs. the reporters questioned the voice. All of them afterward agreed that the occasionally quavering Texas drawl, the verbal mannerisms and the sometimes rambling descriptions of aviation minutiae could only have come from Hughes. Their judgment was later corroborated by Noah Dietrich, who had worked for Hughes and been his intimate for 32 years before they parted...
Grand Cordon. At the inaugural ceremony, held in blistering 100° heat, President Tolbert praised Mrs. Nixon as a "testimony of the strength, solidarity and permanence of this special relationship between our countries." Afterward she conferred privately with Tolbert for half an hour; among other things, they discussed President Nixon's forthcoming China trip. The fun began the following day, when brightly clad tribal dancers performed for her on the rooftop terrace of the eight-story presidential mansion. To Mrs. Nixon, the dance was extraordinary: the pulsing beat of drums and hollow logs, the rhythmic clacking of ankle shells...
...speech worried me," Muskie said afterward. He had reason to worry. With less than 24 hours remaining before the scheduled taping, Muskie was still without a final version, having considered and rejected four separate drafts from his speechwriters. That night he slept little; his wife Jane later told a staff aide that "Ed got up every ten minutes." The next day brought several more revisions, and not until 10 p.m., some five hours late, did the taping begin. The TV crew, hired by Muskie's TV consultant, Robert Squier, was the same that had filmed his successful 1970 election...
Mary McCarthy, grande dame of the old American left, assures us in the afterward that Revel is only a pamphleteer. Recognizing this we can all chuckle indulgently at his excesses and inadequacies. After all, he exploits them in the name of the polemic. But petty Gallic charm cannot substantiate his vision...