Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account of Nixon's activities as he fell from power, if not exactly grace. The second and last installment appears this week, and it is much like the first: compelling, gossip-laden, well-assembled, badly-written (if only Gay Talese could have purchased their notes), and, because the information confirms everything people suspected...
...rash of comments and no-comments erupted over the new Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein book on Watergate, The Final Days. After TIME summarized the book's highlights in last week's issue (March 29), the New York Daily News and the Associated Press produced similar stories. At week's end, Newsweek, which is printing excerpts from the volume, released large sections of it. Finally, the Washington Post printed its own summary of the book's main disclosures...
Despite the pro forma disclaimers, Woodward and Bernstein weave a brisk and convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...
According to Woodward and Bernstein, Kissinger's monitoring of telephone calls was not confined to Nixon. Beginning in 1970, a Dictabelt machine began automatically taping nearly all his calls. Even some of his personal chats with his present wife, Nancy Maginnes, were monitored by secretaries, who would remind him of any social engagement he might have made...
...election, demonstrators carried placards that focused almost exclusively on the pardon. DOES NIXON DRIVE A FORD? asked one. BEG YOUR PARDON, said another. NIXON'S GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE, read a third. One Ford aide found some consolation in the timing of the Woodward-Bernstein book. "At least it's coming out now with quite a few months to die down and be forgotten, " he said. That could prove to be just wishful thinking...