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Certain Skepticism. In court the accuracy of parts of the Post article was repeatedly challenged, not only by witnesses for Butts, but also by witnesses for the defense-including Burnett. Georgia Trainer Sam Richwine and Georgia End Mickey Babb joined others who disclaimed direct quotations attributed to them in the story. Writer Graham's astonishing excuse was that re-creating quotes is a "common practice in journalism." Carmichael testified that the Burnett notes produced in court were not the same ones that his former associate had shown...
Last year the shabby White House library was redone in cozy 19th century style. Last week, after an "agonizing" year of culling, a scholar-studded committee, headed by Yale Librarian James T. Babb, produced an official book list -1,780 titles in 32 categories from art to sports, confined by the definition of the job to American authors...
...otherwise represented by The Enemy Within, which was on and off the compilers' list so many times that they lost count, eventually survived scrutiny by librarians and scholars across the country. And the scholars were tough. When the Yale economics department looked over the economics section, says Librarian Babb, "they tore it apart...
...Babb seems to be "adamant" about the final list, will now set about acquiring the books. Some 400 volumes are on hand; another 2,200 (some of the titles come in sets) must be donated. Donors will get credit on the bookplate, and need not worry that their gifts will vanish. "This library belongs to the people of the U.S.," says Babb. "These aren't books a President can walk off with when he leaves the White House...
...White House library is fundamentally a personal library; it does not pretend to be comprehensive. Mr. Babb and the others who collected it had to draw the line somewhere. Unfortunately, they drew that line right around the borders of the United States. The result is a library that is as provincial in terms of what it excludes as it is sophisticated within its self-imposed limits...