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...Santa Ana, Calif., Register, which had tracked Nixon's financial affairs concerning San Clemente, reported on May 13,1973 that Senate investigators were looking into the possibility that surplus campaign funds had been used to buy the estate. That story got considerable play, but the basic allegation has never been supported. Newsweek a year ago reported that John Dean had information to the effect that some "lowlevel White House officials at one point considered assassinating the President of Panama." Neither Dean nor anyone else ever corroborated that grabber...
...reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread to economic institutions and beyond, making procrastination a worldwide way of life. Many languages are studded with phrases that refer to putting things off-from the Spanish mañana to the Arabic bukra fil mishmish (literally "tomorrow in apricots," more loosely "leave it for the soft spring weather when the apricots are blooming...
Cooley's narrative wanders between epic trash and a dogged replica of history. He plies the big-state genre, hoping his readers will be thinking of, say, Hawaii or Giant. They probably won't. Cooley's stagehands bang history back and forth: "Santa Ana is a fool. No man of reason can talk to him." Canned narrative alternates with archaic sex scenes...
...happy to see your story on John Denver [Sept. 17]. What Van Gogh has painted ana Thoreau has written, Denver has sung. His songs keep me contented until the day I, too, see the Rockies...
...report was specifically a delayed response to a story that appeared last April in Orange County's conservative Santa Ana Register, which claimed that federal investigators were looking into the possibility that unreported funds from the 1968 G.O.P. campaign were used to help buy Nixon's $1.5 million dream home in San Clemente. At the time, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler called the story "malicious, ill-founded and scurrilous." Although the new accounting did not document the source of personal funds used in Nixon's various transactions, it demonstrated fairly convincingly that he neither used nor had need...