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Judging from an interview that Nixon's son-in-law David Eisenhower gave to the Associated Press last week, it may well be that the ex-President still does not comprehend how seriously his actions may have eroded America's constitutional system. Nixon had merely "acquiesced in the non-prosecution of aides who covered up a little operation into the opposition's political headquarters," said young Eisenhower. And that, he added, "is a practice that was fairly well established in Washington for a long time and that no one took all that seriously." Eisenhower admitted that only at the last...
...rumors of possible resignation were running wild, initially sending the Dow Jones industrial average up a startling 25 points by midday, the Senators were grim. Explained Tower later: "There was considerable concern that the President did not really understand the mood of the Senate, that he did not fully comprehend the peril he faced if he came to trial here...
Some day history may rank them as special heroes, emerging out of a shadowy world of anguish that now we can only begin to comprehend. Alexander Haig, the President's chief of staff, who, with deep care and sensitivity, midwifed the political death of Richard Nixon. James St. Clair, reviled by many when he went before the Supreme Court and the Congress, who finally recognized there was no defense of the President and told him so. Henry Kissinger, who came into Nixon's orbit of power as the lone outsider, but who in the end was comforter, friend...
...sense, Marmon reported, the same disintegration affected the whole island as a result of the fierce fighting between Turks and Greeks. Few utilities were functioning fully. The tally sheets of death and destruction were still being added up, and islanders on both sides were struggling to comprehend the "new realities" that Turkish Premier Biilent Ecevit warned of in the wake of the Turkish invasion. Thousands of residents-both Turkish and Greek-had been turned into refugees...
Similarly, for the young, the contours of the presidency seemed too large to measure. After Inauguration Day 1953, there was a superhero in the White House uttering homilies that few could dispute, in a language that fewer could even comprehend. (Editor Oliver Jensen was moved to rewrite the Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country...") The private sector was as confusing as the federal. It was the time of ad lingo, when ideas were things that...