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...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...
According to reports from those familiar with the book, The Final Days is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of the collapse of the former President. Woodward and Bernstein state that Nixon took to drinking in the afternoon in his little hideaway in the Executive Office Building. His appointments became fewer and his office hours more erratic as his control of Government slipped away. There were days when he did not come over from the mansion until noon. Once, almost at the end, he was heard saying "Goodbye" to the portraits of his predecessors on the White House walls. He cried...