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...Clemente, the heavy surf pounding below Richard Nixon's clifftop redoubt was shrouded by the early morning fog last week, and inside his secluded den the President was perhaps more solitary than ever before. With a swivel of his big chair, he could have seen for himself what his former aide, John Dean, was saying before the Senate Watergate committee. But the television screen remained blank...
...PRESS) that he had not watched Dean at all-either in the live hearings or in snatches on the network news programs. There is, of course, no way to be certain of this fact, reported TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, since the President was alone every morning in the den (elegantly furnished at Government expense), and did not drive over to the adjoining presidential office in the Western White House compound until 9:30 or 10. But the story rings true; it is hard to imagine Richard Nixon listening to himself under attack...
...sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca (where the preppies hang out for their booze). Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a basement coffee house with great spicy shiskebab, an endless selection of the most select folk rock albums, and some of the most carelessly elegant counterculture waiters around...
...during the day, he watches the Watergate committee hearings on television and prepares his defense in his small den. As he works, Mitchell has at times been so hyped up that Martha once asked his doctor to prescribe medication to slow him down. The doctor refused, saying Mitchell was fine...
...government's concern should be with justice, van den Haag continued, not with charity. A general amnesty is "contrary to the spirit of democracy," he said...