Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.O.P. Congressman for foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He's spent a lot of time teaching his district the majesty of the thing and bringing his people along." Though political observers feel that disenchanted Nixonites will stay at home in November, nobody thinks he is in real trouble...
Safire wrote some time ago that he hoped to "become more of an essayist than a columnist - perhaps a slow Swift or a hazy Hazlitt." Well, anyway, hazy...
Print journalists generally applauded TV's unblinking coverage. The Tulsa (Okla.) World found the TV scrutiny especially appropriate at a time when "Americans are in a 'show me' mood about politics and public life." New York Times Columnist James Reston was in a dissenting minority of commentators. He rather sourly accused committee members of "making recitations before the TV cameras" and decided that the whole exercise produced "bad law and boring television...
...information, and Mollenhoff agreed after being assured by Haldeman that Nixon wanted it. Mollenhoff got it from Assistant IRS Commissioner Donald W. Bacon. The report, which claimed that Gerald Wallace might have failed to report kickbacks from state liquor sales and federal highway contracts, was then leaked to Columnist Jack Anderson by a source "at the highest White House level," said Mollenhoff in a Judiciary Committee affidavit. The aim apparently was to impair George Wallace's re-election prospects in hopes of removing him from the 1972 presidential race. Anderson claims that he received the tax report from Murray Chotiner...
...post is unprecedented. As Columnist Harriet Van Home wrote about the appointment: "Betty Friedan can eat her heart out, but one can't see either Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford setting up a department dealing with the feminine condition." In fact, Giscard at first tried to downgrade the Cabinet post to the head of a women's affairs bureau, but yielded when Giroud refused to accept such a position...