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...made some costly gaffes A few days after Nixon resigned, he dismissed Watergate as "insignificant." In a jaundiced discussion of the United Nations, he remarked that Ugandans would "rather eat their own people than they would food." Better financed than Hart, Dominick is planning a last-minute TV blitz, it will have to be explosive to save his seat...
Freelandia Air Travel Club took off last fall in the midst of a press blitz that puffed its low fares ($69, Newark-Los Angeles), its organic chic (natural food, a water bed in its yellow DC-8) and its ringing slogan, "Not-For-Profit." Not-For-Real would have been more accurate...
Harvard did it with a frantic 11 for 12 blitz of the last dozen contests, including seven of eight in the last week and a three-game sweep of Penn (2) and Princeton when the chips were on the line...
Both Committee Chairman Sam Ervin and Vice Chairman Howard Baker, a Republican, said that they have faith in Dean's credibility. Special Prosecutor Jaworski continues to count Dean a key witness in the Watergate trials. In a way, the White House blitz on Dean seemed either a diversionary tactic or mere vindictiveness. Now that the evidence of the tapes is available, Dean's testimony is far less vital or relevant...
White Paper. What was certain was that Nixon was orchestrating a major campaign to win public support for a limited response to the subpoena, apparently in hopes of forcing the committee to accept it. An aide said that the blitz probably would include a prime-time television speech. In addition, White House Speechwriter Ray Price worked all week on a White Paper to explain Nixon's reasons for not turning the tapes over to the committee. Senior presidential aides-among them Dean Burch and St. Clair-were offered to television networks for interviews this week...