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...last week when the New York Times strongly suggested in a front-page story by James Wooten that the President was closing his mind and not listening to dissent, there was a minor explosion from Press Secretary Jody Powell. For 20 minutes he lectured the world about the inaccuracies of the account. It sounded like somebody playing old White House tapes. John Kennedy blew up at the New York Herald Tribune, and canceled all 22 White House subscriptions to the newspaper They used to keep the bad clips from Ike to avoid eruptions of his barracks temper. L.B.J. thought...
...taping, from which the four 90-minute shows would be edited, there was real fear among Frost's team of researchers and production experts that Nixon had indeed snowed their man. Those early tapings had ranged across Nixon's tough Viet Nam War policies, his attempts to stifle dissent at home, his pioneering drive to reach out to China, his opening of the long road toward strategic arms limitations with the Soviet Union, his peace initiatives in the Middle East, abuses of power, and Spiro Agnew. Through it all, the resilient Nixon sometimes ate up valuable minutes with long, dull...
...when it is dying as a cause and being born as an institution. The paper, once the voice of the radical fringe, has so flourished that a big commercial publisher wants to add it to his string of properties. The staffers have outlived their heady days of protest and dissent ("We were dangerous then," says one wistfully). They are coasting, but restlessly. The situation is a neat distillation of the moment in our cultural history when the 1960s turned into the 1970s?though the movie, in one of its few blunders, anomalously sets the action in the present...
...David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with society while yearning to be part...
Last week Fox avoided the pressures of any possible opposition when he did not consult CHUL. Fox has resorted to such dissent-quashing tactics before, with equally undesirable results. His unveiling of a comprehensive housing plan during fall reading period (when most students were busy studying for exams) enabled him to railroad substantial alterations in the housing system through a lame-duck CHUL which had rejected a similar plan in less harried times. Apart from the undemocratic way in which the decision to open the Union and reduce breakfast service was made, the change itself will result in inconveniences...