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...among the bedrock 25%, such questions do not seem to matter; their view of Nixon remains immovable. Some in this group take their cue from the Administration and consider Watergate a "blip" that has been overblown by a hostile press. Others are more cynical (though they would probably describe their attitude as realistic) and deride their opponents as hypocrites. To them, politics is always dirty, and Nixon's conduct in office only slightly worse than usual, if that. Furthermore, many Nixon backers consider him a man who sees and understands their interests, particularly in areas like school busing, welfare...
From examination of fossils in the sediment cores found just above the bedrock, the geologists deduced that 150 to 200 million years ago, the Falkland plateau was dry land in a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean today. That evidence fitted in with earlier suggestions by other geologists that there had once been an inland sea in Gondwanaland similar to the Mediterranean and bounded by what are now South America, Africa and Antarctica. Then, as the continents began to separate, the area round the ancient sea gradually sank, reached its present depth about 80 million years ago, and remained...
...recent years, attacks on the press have taken on a new dimension and, particularly over Watergate, they have become mindless and reflexive. This is true not only of Richard Nixon's bedrock supporters but of many others-including, recently, Archibald Cox. The press should never expect to be loved or admired. But it has a right to be understood, and too many Americans do not seem to understand what the press is about and what part it must play in the American system. An estrangement between the press and large numbers of Americans is dangerous, not merely...
Hortonville seems an unusual setting for an angry labor battle. Immaculately kept dairy farms, interspersed with scattered forests and sparkling streams, dot the countryside. But the farmers and pulp-mill workers tend to be bedrock conservatives (oldtimers still revere the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, who grew up in Grand Chute twelve miles away), and anti-union sentiment runs high...
...done in the name of the White House?' We've been hearing for months with each new revelation that it was the straw that would break the camel's back. But this really is the straw." Added Smith: "People are reading the transcripts. We are now hearing from the bedrock conservatives in Arizona, and they do not like what they are reading. They are telling us: 'We can no longer defend this man.' The only thing that is keeping Nixon alive is the slowness of the U.S. mails...