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...When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon--who had labeled student demonstrators "bums" the week before--remarked the next day, in a prepared statement read by Ron Ziegler...
With those words, Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr. declared that his House Judiciary Committee would no longer tolerate the White House failure to deliver 41 tape recordings of presidential conversations that the committee had requested on Feb. 25 for its impeachment inquiry. Without dissent from any of the 38 committee members, Rodino said that the evidence must be submitted this week or it would be subpoenaed. Such a legal step would weaken the President's frequent public claims that he is voluntarily cooperating with the committee...
...home we faced eight years of an administration vociferously dedicated to the repression of dissent. If the Houston plan came as a shock to most Americans in 1973, we knew years before that something like it, or worse, had to be in the minds of the thugs in the White House...
...political process in this country can use some political dissent, and this is one way to get it," he said...
...independently wealthy Peretz, whose wife Anne has Singer Co. holdings, becomes NR's third owner since its founding in 1914. Since that time, NR has built an enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...