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Still, in choosing Saxbe, the President was forced to overlook an extraordinary record for candor displayed by the Ohio Senator, frequently at the Administration's expense. Shortly after arriving in Washington, Saxbe visited the White House and told Nixon that he had been elected to end the Viet Nam War and that "if he hung onto it, it would be his war." The Senator did not receive another White House invitation for more than four years. That was doubtless fine with John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, the President's two top advisers at the time, who were referred...
...shocking, but White, a sage and proper Yankee, was speaking with a purpose: he was getting across to a mass audience the value of normal body functions as a sign of a cardiac patient's recovery. White was often accused of sensationalism and publicity seeking, but this candor was his way of promoting the cause of preventive cardiology...
...vice president, you have addressed the great issues of our times with courage and candor. Your strong patriotism, and your profound dedication to the welfare of the nation, have been an inspiration to all who have served with you as well as to millions of others throughout the country...
With such an example of candor, the portraitists of lesser dignitaries seem to have really looked at their sitters, producing heads that represent real people with individuality rather than conventional images. Even the royal family was portrayed in familiar situations - kissing, hugging or dandling a child. Nefertiti's striking facial resemblance to her husband, however, is thought by some scholars to be the result of artistic license, a concession to the kingly features considered ideal at the time...
...speech, Mr. Nixon exhibited his most common and dangerous mistake to date -underestimating and, hence, insulting the intelligence and perception of the American people. How are we to depart from our "obsession with the past" when the President's obvious lack of courage and candor makes the events of Watergate a recurrent shadow upon our present-and future...