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Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who filed thousands of words for the story written by Associate Editor Burton Pines, got a quite different impression of the mood of the Navy when he attended a high-ranking strategy forum at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Says Nelan: "The atmosphere was awash in gloom and doom. The admirals could not understand why America's seapower was, as they saw it, being cut back to the danger point. They were puzzled as much as angry, feeling misunderstood and ill-used...
Barbara James, Editor Perry County Tribune New Lexington, Ohio
...than 500,000−a throw-away of presidential verbiage that must make historians blink. Still, the final product is a book of 1,184 pages. And though Nixon had research help from his staff, as well as from writers who prepared drafts of some sections, the result, says Editor in Chief Robert Markell of Grosset & Dunlap, "is very much the former President's book and his words. It is his message not only to us here and now, but down through the ages...
...years before he achieved the presidency in 1968. Roughly another third concentrates on foreign policy, while a final third covers the Watergate scandal. The best parts apparently deal with Nixon's historic overture to China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell, who visited San Clemente half a dozen times to work with the author, "has a sharp talent for being able to recall the sense of a person." Walter Hunt, a Reader's Digest editor who has read the manuscript, agrees that Nixon brings foreign leaders "alive...
...William Sundstrom, editor-in-chief of the Daily Collegian, said yesterday, "The administration is acting in an irresponsible manner because they will not uphold the rights of students to use their offices...