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...former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The President attempted to blunt this threat with his own flock of political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon's need to keep moderates around. Chappaquiddick, the authors contend, opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Deluge | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...must endeavor, with God's help, not to give in. If faith cannot "work" even for us, how could the sermons our husbands preach from the Holy Scriptures be of any hope to our flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 28, 1974 | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

EASTER. Tins tune the Good Shepherd pastor gets ins flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Thomas J. Quinlan, now 42, an intense, long-haired, chain-smoking Moses who felt called to lead Good Shepherd's flock forth from institutional captivity. Quite orthodox as a young seminarian, he had grown to despise the way Catholics "divorced church from their daily lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Closing a Clerical Show | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...lonely caterwauler with the dogged persistence of an insecure gum-shoe, and one cold morning at 3:30 a.m., confronted the youth in his Matthews Hall digs. "I would like to discipline you," Young asserted coolly, "but to do so would be to risk publicizing this case; thousands would flock to your defense, and you would only lose your anonymity." The startled undergraduate thought for a moment, then declared simply, "I will stop...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Home, Home and Deranged | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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