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...record collection that comes on with "Remember the sounds of the Summer '73." We're already nostalgic about the present, a time scale compressed to the point of absurdity. It is humorous, but it carries desperation for those just a little younger than I am. Maybe Sam Ervin is right when he says we face the worst time of our history. Perhaps there will be nothing about this age to be nostalgic about, so the spirit of an age that has characterized past decades will have to be created artificially. Watkins Glen was a programmed attempt to recreate a Woodstock...
Something is happening out there. Almost all the polls are moving-against Nixon. There are no dramatic cave-ins, just steady erosion. Maybe that is what frightens the White House now. But Sam Ervin did not point the direction. Talking with him, one feels certain he would be about the same person if the polls were moving the other way-for Nixon. He is not after anybody. He is after something bigger-truth and honor...
...Ervin said it. Rather, he borrowed from the Bible. "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Sam believes...
...President's integrity while she dished up bowls of steaming chicken soup ("My God," said one Timesman opposed to Safire's hiring, "we've got a dozen better chicken-soup men"). There was Safire claiming ultimate victory for Nixon after John Dean testified before the Ervin committee: "The eye of the storm has passed, and Mr. Nixon did not blink...
...attack him, I'm a traitor. If I ignore the whole thing, I'm a cop-out." Deservedly known as a wit and wordsmith during his years as an Administration speechwriter, Safire has kept his sense of humor throughout the ordeal, although his neologisms ("presibuster" for the Ervin hearings, "probephiliacs" for those investigating Watergate) are shorter on style than many of his admirers had expected. One of his more inventive efforts was a savagely funny parody of Kipling's Gunga Din that impugned the credibility of John Dean: "You will claim that you obeyed/ But the truth...