Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columnist Jack Anderson's readers have come to expect daily bulletins about skulduggery all over, bleak reports that are long on data and short on philosophy. So it was something of a shock last week when Anderson took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair...
...apparently must to all men who consider themselves high in the confidence of Richard M. Nixon, the revelation came last week to William Safire, longtime Nixon speechwriter and now a columnist for the New York Times, that his phone had been tapped.* It filled him with what he called "restrained fury...
...closet was the allegation that the Administration had quietly settled a 1971 antitrust case against ITT, the giant conglomerate, in return for an ITT offer of up to $400,000 to help defray the cost of the Republicans' 1972 national convention in San Diego (later switched to Miami). Columnist Jack Anderson published an ITT memorandum last year that appeared to substantiate the charge. But before ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, the author of the memo, could give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she was spirited off to Colorado-reportedly by the White House "plumbers"-and was said...
...Gerald Ford, counseled Nixon to release the tapes. New York's Conservative Senator James Buckley said: "I think the consensus of the American people will be that the President, while he has the right to exercise the [Executive] privilege, ought not to be exercising it." His brother, Columnist William F. Buckley, wrote last week: "The argument of Executive privilege is too abstract and too implausible to capture the popular imagination. [Americans] will take the President's refusal as grounds for properly drawing adverse inferences." Kansas' Senator Robert Dole, the former Republican National Committee chairman, reported his popular...
When Nixon Speechwriter William Safire left the White House last January to become a columnist for the New York Times, most saw the move as a peace offering from Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to the newly re-elected Administration. On an Op-Ed page dominated by such consistent Nixon critics as James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis, Safire could provide a steady injection of pro-Administration counterpoint. But the new commentator had knocked out exactly one column (on April 16) before the President made his first public admission of White House involvement in the Watergate scandal. Since then, Safire...