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...proceed. Some, like Jeb Magruder and John Dean, seem swamped by feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Others, like John Mitchell, gruffly deny any wrongdoing (as they see it), and seem quite willing to rape the Constitution again at their next convenience. Meanwhile, the White House, which once espoused "benign neglect" (guess who thought that one up) at the expense of our black population, now espouses benign neglect with regard to the Watergate hearings...
...FOLLOWING is a tenative attempt to catalogue the top 20 real enemies of the world's people. The crimes of the people listed extend far beyond anything so benign as threats to the tenure of an incumbent president: the list includes murderers, torturers and other oppressors...
That recent exchange was deceptively benign, an interlude in a harsh running confrontation that seems to be destroying Ziegler's usefulness. Ziegler, 34, has never been popular with White House reporters. Unlike most of his recent predecessors, he had never been a newsman-he was an account executive for J. Walter Thompson, where he met H.R. Haldeman. His friendship with Haldeman and his work on the 1968 Nixon campaign lifted him into the White House...
...been so preoccupied with such larger matters as the war in Viet Nam and détente with the Soviet Union and China that it has virtually ignored its neighbors to the south. To many Latin Americans, Washington's policy has seemed more like "malign neglect" than benign neglect; a low profile by the U.S. south of the border meant a low priority for Latin America north...
Master's prerogatives are a central problem. The prevailing condition in Harvard Houses is one of not-necessarily-benign absolutism. Masters take their titles very seriously, and often enjoy flaunting their powers. The educational value of Harvard undergraduates' spending three years under the example of a petty but absolute academic bureaucrat is questionable...