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...offered the cryptic advice: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." That prompted Ervin to ask slyly and rhetorically: "How long after that did Mitchell leave the campaign?" (In fact, it was a week later.) Then Sloan took his complaint to White House Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, who told him he was "overwrought" and should take a vacation. Ehrlichman counseled: "Do not tell me the details. 1 do not want to know." Frederick LaRue suggested that Sloan take the Fifth Amendment to stay in the good graces of the campaign organization. Disgusted and disillusioned, Sloan resigned from...
...maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and pathetic figure. The names, a new one every day: Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kliendienst, Krogh, Barker, Sturgis, Alch, McCord, Liddy, Hunt, Chapin, Caulfield. Piecing together the stories, the leaks and the testimony, waiting for that last link, the one piece of firm evidence: "The president ordered me to do this, I bugged them on the president's orders...
...popular decision, if long in coming. Chapin had amply shown that he could run a smooth operation, and that it was possible to have aristocratic savoir-faire without resorting to the autocratic methods of former Met Manager Rudolf Bing. As many a diva has learned, Chapin's tact and graciousness do not signal a relaxed will. He pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will...
Until Gentele hired him as his No. 2 man, Chapin had never worked in an opera house. Instead, he had served early on as a tour manager for Columbia Artists Management, later as head of Columbia Records' classical department, Lincoln Center's vice president for programming and executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's various television, film and musical enterprises...
Aside from Herbert Witherspoon, who died within weeks of taking over in 1935, Chapin is the Met's first American-born general manager in 77 years. It was appropriate therefore that Chapin should take the opportunity to announce, as his first official act as manager, that at long last Soprano Beverly Sills will make her Met debut in 1975 in Rossini's Siege of Corinth...