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...press secretary for the Vice President. James M. Cannon, a onetime political reporter who helped lobby revenue sharing through Congress, is expected to become Rockefeller's liaison with Congress. Joseph Persico, a former USIA staffer, will be the Veep's chief speechwriter, though he admits to experiencing "blank-page terror" when he starts composing a speech. "I now have trouble writing a business letter without making it sound like Caesar haranguing the Etruscans," he says. Ann Whitman, who was once President Eisenhower's secretary, will continue to be Rockefeller's personal secretary...
...tapes are produced, the White House might report, as it has in the past, that some recordings mentioned in the subpoena simply were never made. So far the White House has said that 13 tapes previously sought do not exist. Others may contain gaps, like a 19-minute blank reported last week by the Special
...said that "Nixon went to the Middle East to seed the fields so brilliantly plowed by ... Henry Kissinger." It is an extremely poetic statement. However, a more realistic assessment would be that Nixon went to the Middle East to sign the blank checks so generously left by Kissinger...
...last week, television viewers in Portugal were watching a live broadcast celebrating the nation's recently won-and increasingly unruly -freedom. Suddenly, in the midst of a skit in which an actor impersonating the former Catholic patriarch of Lisbon was blessing the old secret police, the screen went blank. A few minutes later, a woman announcer appeared to say that a representative of the junta had ordered the program off the air. Four days earlier, in the small hours of the morning, plain-clothes police had knocked on the door of José Luis Saldanha Sanches, 29, a Maoist...
Bardsmanship is a game with no losers. As the new, computerized Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare proves, every critic and defender of the Nixon Administration can find barbs and shields in the blank verse. The playwright has some thing for everyone: politics and religion, sin and redemption-if it is in the human condition, it is in the Shakespearean canon. Most of the year, Shakespeare resides quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns...