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...American press jetted in reinforcements from everywhere. The Chicago Tribune switched its Far Eastern correspondent, Ronald Yates, from Phnom-Penh to Saigon within 24 hours of the news of the retreat; the New York Times moved in Pulitzer Prizewinner Malcolm Browne from Belgrade, Bernard Weinraub from India and Fox Butterfield from Tokyo; TIME dispatched William McWhirter from London and Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart; ABC pitched in with twelve full-time personnel...
When he revealed the existence of Richard Nixon's tapes, Alexander Butterfield doomed the President. A former White House aide, Butterfield was only truthfully replying to the questions of Senate investigators, but he incurred the enduring hatred of Nixon loyalists, who thought that he should have covered up for his old boss...
Nearly two years later, Butterfield is still being hunted down by hard core Nixonians. Now head of the Federal Aviation Administration, which is under attack for neglecting safety standards, he has been hampered by the undercutting and sandbagging of Nixon allies in the Department of Transportation, the parent body of FAA. What is more, Butterfield has been getting midnight phone calls from old associates who have berated him for coming clean about the White House tapes. One call came from Rose Mary Woods, the former President's longtime secretary, who angrily assailed Butterfield as a "son of a bitch...
...outside Washington, Butterfield has found that his forthright revelation about the tapes has created quite a different reaction. On trips, Butterfield is constantly sought out by people who want to congratulate him for his hon esty and candor. In Los Angeles, one woman asked him if he would shake her son's hand. "His father was killed in Viet Nam," she said. "You're the kind of man he would want his son to grow...
...conscientious and energetic man, Butterfield is respected by his peers on the NTSB and by the pilots themselves for his attempts to crank some new life into the sluggish and unwieldly bureaucracy he inherited. "If we can get tough, tough as hell," he says, "and not favor any segment of the aviation community, we are going to gain the respect we deserve." On that point, Butterfield clearly has the firm support of a constituency of nearly half a million Americans -the number that fasten their seat belts daily in U.S. airliners...