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Wilga M. Rivers said on Thursday that she will accept the post to replace Dwight L. Bolinger who retired last year...
...Nixon forces as part of an undercover dirty-tricks campaign against Democratic presidential contenders in 1972. The tireless tracking down of Segretti brought the reporters confirmation of his underhanded activities, his apparently unlimited travel funds and his tie to several old University of Southern California friends, among them Dwight Chapin, who had by then become President Nixon's appointments secretary...
Their work had just begun. Sources hinted that if Dwight Chapin was tied to Segretti, higher White House aides for whom Chapin worked were likely involved: perhaps Presidential Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. In following that lead, the reporters suffered their first crippling setback. They had been imbued from the first with the need for caution?"When in doubt, leave it out," their editors ordered?and had decided early to forgo generalizations in favor of only the specific and solid. They checked every fresh fact against at least two different sources. But the pressure of keeping one scoop ahead...
There have been periods in these last two decades when the pursuit of personal gratification by Presidents seemed to overwhelm their sense of mission. Dwight Eisenhower sought out the best links in the nation for himself and his golfing cronies on occasions when he should have been at his desk handling national problems. John Kennedy's social evenings were a lot more successful than some of his dealings with Congress. People still roar with laughter recalling that Lyndon Johnson, when told by a Marine that he was headed toward the wrong Government helicopter, looked down and said, "Son, they...
...first acts of his successor, George Mehren, 60, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was to try to persuade Nixon associates to get the Justice Department to drop the antitrust suit. In an answer to a questionnaire from Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, former AMPI Secretary Dwight I. Morris claimed to have evidence that Mehren offered Nixon Attorney Herbert W. Kalmbach another $300,000 in campaign funds if the suit were dropped. According to Morris, Kalmbach refused the offer because of the controversy raging over the Administration's antitrust settlement with...