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...Russian? Said a priest in his entourage when asked that question last week: "No Pole speaks Russian?but everyone understands it." A flip-up desk allows him to write while being driven in his car. He has a disconcerting habit of reading or writing while carrying on a conversation???and then displaying total recall of what was said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Brown returned to the Pentagon this January, he was no longer a kid but still a whiz?and a mellower fellow to boot. He works as intensely as ever and expects others to do the same. Now if his time is being wasted by a subordinate, he ends the conversation???but a little more gracefully. Says a senior assistant: "It seems amazing to me that he is so good with people. That's an extraordinary personality development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NO LONGER A KID BUT STILL A WHIZ | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...Executives' Club of Chicago. He implied that he will not comply with the Judiciary Committee's request for White House tapes and documents beyond those already turned over to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. With much exaggeration, Nixon complained that the committee wanted "all of the tapes of every presidential conversation???a fishing license or a complete right to go through all of the presidential files." He said that "it isn't the question that the President has something to hide." But to let anyone "just come in and paw through the documents," he contended, would destroy "the principle of confidentiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The President's Strategy for Survival | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...details of this charge also strongly support Dean's televised testimony about this conversation???and impugn Nixon's public statements about the talk. To a surprising degree, Haldeman's testimony had verified Dean's recollection of the conversation, although Dean had thought that parts of it had occurred earlier, on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Seven Charged, a Report and a Briefcase | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...tapes, and the speakers' voices often overlapped. She testified that Nixon dropped in to see how she was doing. "He pushed a button back and forth and said, 'I don't see how you're getting any of this.' " She labored for some 29 hours on just one conversation???between Nixon and Ehrlichman on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: The Secretary and the Tapes Tangle | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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