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Nixon took the precaution of taping the late-morning meeting. At one point he joked: "Matter of fact, the room is not tapped, [laughter] Forgot to do that [laughter]." The President said he was "very grateful" for the support the dairymen had given him?"and I don't have to spell it out." But nothing was said at this key meeting about the $2 million pledge or any deal. Nixon praised the virtues of the rural life, lauded the sleep-inducing properties of milk, gave each man presidential cufflinks and prudently refrained from even hinting at whether...
...Lion conquered the island on his way to the Holy Land, Cyprus fell to the Franks and then to the Venetians. In 1570 the Turks arrived, carrying the standard of the Ottoman Empire. From the start, the Turkish rulers demonstrated a ferocity that the inhabitants of Cyprus never forgot. After capturing the city of Famagusta in 1571, the Turks publicly flayed to death the commander of the defending troops, then stuffed his skin with straw and paraded it around the island. About 30,000 Turkish soldiers were granted land on Cyprus, encouraging them to settle their families there. Those settlers...
...denied any involvement in various stages of the Ellsberg operation. But several memos indicated that he had not told the truth. Throughout the trial, he demonstrated what Prosecutor Merrill called a "selective memory": he had no trouble recalling episodes that might help his defense, but forgot incidents that might damage...
...that newsmen ever forgot their power to campaign for causes. That power has not always been used wisely or in the public interest. Nor has it been used consistently. Investigative journalism, for instance, has run in cycles, flourishing most conspicuously in the first decade of this century, when muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell raged against civic corruption, social injustice and industrial abuses. There was some revival in the 1920s, during Teapot Dome and Prohibition, and again, with different stresses, during the Depression. World War II and the cold war created a sense of common goals...
...meet an impending payroll. A woman possessed, and sometimes distracted, by her mission, she once drove home in the wee hours after an exhausting rehearsal, discovered for the umpteenth time that she had lost her keys, checked into a nearby motel for a quick snooze, then walked out and forgot to pay. Her mother recently offered her $1,000 in cash if she would only get her hair done for an opening night; Sarah had no time. She would be the despair of all her friends and colleagues, if they did not love...