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Finally and most importantly, the charge in your story relating to Mr. Mitchell and myself is based entirely on one statement which you carry as an apparent direct, first-hand quotation from Mr. Hunt. Hunt has publicly denied that he made such a statement. It is not a first-hand quotation and even if it were firsthand, the statement would be hearsay. It is perhaps second, third-or fourth-hand hearsay...
LUCKILY I HAVE a friend named Mrs. Emmett, Class of 1907, who insists on keeping informed about what young people are doing these days and invites me over periodically so she can hear a first-hand account. In exchange for consciously deceiving this kind old lady by posing as an authority on my generation. I get to hear all her stories about the past, her opinions about the present, and her worries about the future...
Most of the reporters on Press Bus seven agreed that the most newsworthy item we could report first-hand was the enormous number of McGovern supporters in the crowd. Many thousands had been supplied with posters and slogans by the local McGovern headquarters, whose advance work for the Nixon motorcade rivalled that of the Republicans. But along the route there were also hundreds of hand lettered posters and these were the clearest expression of the mood of those who had turned out to say what they thought of Four More Years Among the anti Nixon posters were Robots for Nixon...
What about Farber's facts? Sitting in Cambridge, it is as hard for us to critically evaluate his first-hand observations as it was for Americans to analyze the facts that were brought home from Vietnam in the mid-sixtles. We do know that some of Farber's facts originated with the Portuguese and Gulf spokesman, and that he made a last-minute change in his statistical account of the Angolan budget after a Portuguese Embassy official, doing his job, complained that Farber's figures were incorrect...
Farber's journey was the result of a Harvard Corporation decision to obtain first-hand information on the situation in Angola in order to make a more knowledgeable decision on the Gulf stock issue...