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Tomorrow, thousands of antiwar protesters will demonstrate a half-mile from the inauguration site. A show of disfavor on this symbolic occasion would increase the pressure on the President to effect an immediate settlement in Paris...
...harsh disciplinary measures that agents consider unjust; the persistence of power cliques that virtually run the bureau; the perpetuation of Hoover's notorious "blacklist" of people to be shunned, socially and otherwise, by FBI agents; the maintenance of so-called penal colonies, field offices to which agents in disfavor are banished; and leaking FBI in formation to embarrass officials Gray considers to be his enemies...
Bullish. At the same time that the President is paring the budget (see THE ECONOMY), he is planning to tighten organization. John Ehrlichman's domestic council will be restructured, because it has been too much of a burden for one man. Ehrlichman himself is not in disfavor, but under a new setup, additional White House aides will be recruited to oversee the bureaucracy. Foremost among them is Frederic Malek, 35, a West Point and Harvard Business School graduate who was recruited by Finch to help run HEW, subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel...
...human being. I am not ashamed of my dark skin. You and every other white American should understand that we believe our color is an asset. Your dislike of my aggressiveness has no effect on me. I'm after something much more important than your favor or disfavor. You should at least admit that you respect me as a man who stands up for what he believes in. I am not an Uncle Tom. I am in this fight to stay...
...Shanghai for the Communists. Though suitably bellicose toward the U.S., Chen was considered somewhat bourgeois by the Red Guards, and he dropped from sight at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's presence at a memorial service for Chen indicated that he was no longer in disfavor...