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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further appeal by the White House to the U.S. Supreme Court is expected. It would probably fail and also be a contentious note on which to enter what the new President hopes will be "a good marriage" with Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Turning Out the Pocket | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...Nixon has always stressed the historical perspective. It would be tragic now if the people or their representatives in government were to lose that sense of history and constitutional justice and fail to prosecute fully all suspected criminals, including Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 26, 1974 | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...they enjoyed in the Nixon White House. "President Ford is a believer in press conferences, and so am I," terHorst said last week. He did not say how many or when (aides have suggested that one every couple of weeks or so would be reasonable), but Ford can hardly fail to improve upon Nixon's dismal record of 37 press conferences during 67 months in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Off to a Helluva Start | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...journalist, is publish a collection of magazine articles every now and then on the theory that your writing has enough literary value to merit being sandwiched between hard covers for posterity. There are, of course, some pitfalls: Despite prefaces that try to tie it all together, journalistic collections often fail even to approach working as a unified whole...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Man of Southern Distinction | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

Tension and concern now run so high in the White House over the tapes and the future of Richard Nixon that Bull and others have instituted a kind of Fail-Safe system to help guard the integrity of the tapes, or whatever of it remains. Bull will not handle the original reels. He gets only duplicates. He carefully takes each 5-in. reel and puts it on a small Sony tape recorder whose erase mechanism has been immobilized by White House technicians. Then he clamps earphones on his head and begins to track down the specified conversations that the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Loneliness of Richard Nixon | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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