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Chastened by the outcry, Perk last week relented and added four laymen to the commission; but the clergymen remain in the majority. A smart investigator, after all, need not be a prosecutor or a lawyer. Indeed, a corrupt cop might just be more willing to confess to clergymen, if only because they can keep secrets...
...that Eisenhower statement. After eight months as ambassador, Graham A. Martin made clear in his first newspaper interview that, despite all the current rhetoric about an "honorable peace," the Nixon administration is still bound by a fierce anti-communism which requires continued support at almost any cost of a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship. Martin and the White House persist in maintaining that the way to resolve Vietnam's problems and prevent an ultimate communist takeover is a large infusion of military and economic...
...Vietnam all cast doubts on the validity of Martin's investigation. In fact, the evidence strongly suggests that "all the means" at the disposal of Martin's staff were substantially limited by a self-imposed need for unequivocal support of and reliance upon the statements of Thieu's corrupt government...
American newspapers had never reported that the White House was corrupt, Woodward said at a Mather House Journalists Seminar. "People believed before that the White House was the fountain of truth," he said...
Watergate's most positive result may well be reform of U.S. campaign laws. Since the scandal began, scores of bills have been filed in Congress to end corrupt election practices. Without mentioning Watergate, President Nixon last week outlined his own recommendations for curbing what he delicately called "campaign abuses recently publicized and of years gone by." The eight-page message read like a list of campaign abuses charged to Nixon's own political associates. The President's main points...