Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are only a few of the lesser-known cases. Elsewhere, numerous reporters have been jailed. Others, like Joe Kraft, an eminently respectable columnist, have had their home phones tapped and been followed by the FBI. For a scary few minutes, Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy thought he was under orders to kill Jack Anderson (he had only been told to "get" him by non-lethal means) and was ready to do the 007 thing for dear old CREEP...
Leslie H. Whitten is the lead investigative reporter for columnist Jack Anderson and author of The Alchemist...
...other stories, rather than dealing with the fallout of Vietnam, Just draws less topical vignettes: a senator announcing his divorce ("Noone"), a Foreign Service Officer watching his career turn into a shambles ("Burns") or the crack-up of a journalist and its consequences ("The Brigadier General and the Columnist's Wife...
...YORK TIMES COLUMNIST TOM WICKER: The clamor for Richard Nixon's resignation is suddenly so deafening that it may drown out good sense and overwhelm due process. It risks a rush to decision rather than an exercise of judgment, and it proposes a constitutional short cut when the primary problem is that the Constitution already has been too often slighted or ignored...
Leslie H. Whitten is not just another run of the Hill Washington novelist. He is described as Columnist Jack Anderson's "top aide," which means he is one of the capital's powerful information brokers. He is also a shrewd and entertaining writer who, in The Alchemist, takes a break from the moral-sometimes bluntly alchemical-rigors of changing mud into political pay dirt...