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...White House contended that two were "nonexistent." Nixon claimed that one of them?a telephone call on June 20, 1972 to John Mitchell, then re-election committee chief?was not taped because he had placed it from his White House living quarters, on a phone that had no taping apparatus. Another conversation with former White House Counsel John Dean on April 15 was not secretly recorded because, Nixon says, the equipment ran out of tape...
...said that President Johnson had better taping equipment in the White House than his own "little Sony" recorders; so far as anyone knows, Johnson had nothing approaching Nixon's pervasive, voice-activated room-and-telephone bugging apparatus. He said that the nominal taxes he had paid for 1969 and 1970 were not the result of "a cattle ranch or interest or gimmicks"; but there is no way his taxes could have been so low if he had not deducted his interest payments on the loans and mortgages for his real estate purchases...
...purpose of Hall's million dollar baby is not computing so much as maintainance. The machine is connected up with hundreds of fans and ventilators and other mechanical apparatus spread all over the University and it monitors the workings of each and every one of them. If something breaks down somewhere a warning is sent to the computer terminal underneath the Science Center where the Building and Grounds employee on duty can order the appropriate steps to be taken to remedy the situation...
...government says it demands that all federal contractors open their doors to more women and minority group members or risk loss of federal funds. But while HEW has repeatedly questioned the apparatus by which universities, including Harvard, will implement their affirmative action programs, the department itself has yet to carry through on its ultimatum. Defense research is more important to the Nixon administration than its own morality or the morality of the institutions it employs...
...second handicap is the confused state of the Administration's energy-policymaking apparatus. Indeed, the behind-the-scenes story, as pieced together by TIME Correspondent Sam Iker, sounds like a bureaucratic free-for-all in seven rounds. As the battle raged, the President apparently remained on the sidelines...