Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days somebody like John Connally could roar and swear at the enemies and tell a few stories to perk up the President. Connally has his own problems now. There was no meeting with the congressional leadership last week. A session with the economic advisers was postponed, then canceled. The bulletin board on which the President's and Mrs. Nixon's schedules are posted each day was empty most of the week. Those brief encounters with the public that were allowed, such as being photographed with Treasury Secretary William Simon, were brittle, posed affairs. The President smiled too much...
...medical bulletin came as many Spaniards were enjoying a long weekend in celebration of the 38th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War that brought Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power. "The illness from which the head of state has been suffering has today suffered a regression because of gastric complications," said the report from the medical center in Madrid, where Franco has been bedridden for the past two weeks. A few hours later, Franco, 81, formally handed over his powers as chief of state and head of the armed forces to Prince Juan Carlos de Borb...
Only the day before, the papers had published pictures of a smiling and apparently hale Franco, and a television film showed him chatting amiably with visitors and journalists. But after the somber bulletin, a special edition of Madrid's evening newspaper Informaciones was snapped up within minutes, and the capital was abuzz with rumors and speculation about Spain's future...
...convey the same message. Even papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Phoenix Gazette, which have remained relatively uncritical of the President, receive letters of outrage when they run straight news stories about Watergate developments. "We did not elect the press," Reader Betty Noble told the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We feel more strangled by the press than by our politicians." Says Bill Eames, news director of KNXT-TV in Los Angeles: "Basically, what we hear back from viewers is 'So enough already!' " Station executives all over the country report similar sentiment...
...ruined. The Los Angeles Times and Time Inc. (by means of LIFE editorials) supported Nixon's election in 1968 and 1972. The Washington Star-News, which won a Pulitzer this spring for its Watergate exclusives of last year, had been one of Nixon's favorite newspapers. The Providence Journal-Bulletin had been relatively sympathetic to Nixon, but it broke the first important story about the President's amazing income tax returns (that exposé also won a Pulitzer...