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...operated the system, practically no one knew of its existence. The idea was first suggested when Nixon found in the White House a taping system installed by President Johnson. He had had it removed then, but looked more favorably on it as he found himself engulfed in leaks. (He forgot that Johnson's system was controlled from the President's desk, permitting selectivity; Nixon's system, activated by sound, was beyond the control of even its originator-ironically symbolic of a White House mood that had run essentially out of control.) Some taping seems to have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: TAPES AND TAPS | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...underpinnings of the sensibilities of these characters, but, sadly, the only form in which they can express themselves. Even when she's not singing. Faith utters profoundly empty phrases such as. "You helped me grow from a girl into a woman... I sang all the music but I forgot the words...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Mid-Life Boredon | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's desk lamp, and it could be switched on or off by a button in a drawer. Roosevelt used the machine between August and November mainly to record 14 press conferences, where no direct quotation was ever allowed. Butow speculates that on several occasions F.D.R. simply forgot to turn the machine off, and so it caught him in some revealing moments. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R. on Tape | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...just back from a tour of Europe, had other ideas; after bearing Laskey a son, Ralph Emerson Bell, she ran away with a four-fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good whiskey that provided him with his own private Dreamland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince Emmanuel's Land | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

When I said that Susan adores only three things, I forgot to mention a fourth obsession--Dwight Clark. Not only did Clark make the reknowned playoff catch, but he also had dinner with Susan's family at her home last summer. Clark, according to Susan, is as close to perfection as anyone can be--he is tall, muscular, good-looking and nice. The only problem, says sorry Susan, is that he currently dates Miss Universe...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Frenzied Forty-Niner Fanaticism | 1/22/1982 | See Source »

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