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Last week, in his first interview since he was convicted of Watergate-related crimes, Ehrlichman spoke in Santa Fe for 90 minutes with TIME'S Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook. Ehrlichman, who lives in a rented 160-year-old adobe house, said he has been putting in two or three hours each morning with pen and paper. He started outlining his novel in March 1974 and completed the manuscript two months ago. He lived on a $50,000 advance from Simon & Schuster...
Still, if the cleric was taciturn, he was also a man of action. "Assure your salvation by your good deeds," he counseled his flock, and his life was a succession of such visible labors. When he came to Santa Fe, Lamy faced a diocese of 236,000 sq. mi.-larger than France. A mere dozen Mexican priests were in attendance, some of them living in open concubinage. The neglected adobe churches were crumbling into ruin before their eyes...
Indians were not Lamy's most formidable opponents. He and Machebeuf had come to Santa Fe in the wake of the Mexican War, only a few years after the U.S. Army. To the Mexicans of the new territory, the Frenchmen were simply invaders in different uniforms. When Lamy suspended Padre Gallegos of Albuquerque for insubordination, the popular priest stood for election to the U.S. Congress. There he ceaselessly pilloried his enemy. Padre Martinez, a pastor who ruled Taos like a prairie king, refused to be tithed by the new bishop. After an agonized power struggle, Lamy excommunicated his adversary...
...became Santa Fe's Johnny Appleseed, importing shade trees, fruits and vegetables, which he shared with the en tire countryside. He cultivated the arts as well: diocesan schools taught not only languages, history and mathematics but also music as a regular part of the cur riculum. He even sponsored material progress: when the railroad threatened to bypass Santa Fe, Lamy joined a group to raise capital for a spur...
When death finally did come for the archbishop in 1888, when he was 73, Santa Fe - and Lamy himself - had changed. "Bishop Juan," as his requiem Mass called him, was mourned by Indian, Mexican and Eastern American alike. "It was," reports Horgan at the conclusion of this superb biography, "the end of a fine...