Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the committee turns later to its examination of campaign funding, one sensation is expected to turn up. TIME has learned that the staff has largely substantiated a charge by Columnist Jack Anderson that aides of the eccentric Howard Hughes gave $100,000 in cash to Nixon's friend Bebe Rebozo in 1970 for transferral to the President. The committee staff has traced the payments to Rebozo, but has not yet been able to determine whether the cash actually reached Nixon. Deputy Presidential Press Secretary Gerald Warren claims flatly that Nixon never did receive any such funds. Some...
...nantua and sent it over to Pat Buchanan, President Nixon's speechwriter, who was deep into an omelette au parmesan. Salinger congratulated Buchanan for his performance before the Watergate committee. On his way out of the restaurant, Buchanan stopped for a cheery chat with Salinger and his companions, Columnist Art Buchwald and Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern's sometime campaign aide...
Private Détente. Agnew and Reston were also in touch two months ago. At that time, the columnist played a small but significant role in formulating Agnew's response to the charges swirling around him. On the night of Aug. 6, Reston advised Agnew that his initial short statement claiming innocence of any wrongdoing would not be enough, that the Vice President's supporters would expect him to stand up and fight...
...Reston of the New York Times ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...
Separated. Joseph Alsop, 62, starchy, patrician, syndicated Washington columnist and brother of Newsweek's Stewart Alsop; and Susan Mary Alsop, 54; after twelve years of marriage, no children...