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...sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations?and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction. The transcripts might not necessarily be representative of the way he always conducts business; the language and tone may be loftier and more dignified when he confers with, say, Henry Kissinger or other officials. Despite the indecipherable passages and inelegant language, however, the transcripts yield an absorbing insight into the inner workings of Nixon's White House and of the President's mind. Some noteworthy examples follow...
Unwanted Bills. A fraction of the amount pledged by the producers -namely, $10,000-went to Jake Jacobsen, an Austin, Texas, attorney who was close to Connally. The milk producers instructed Jacobsen to turn the money over to Connally, who would then distribute it to deserving congressional candidates. In his testimony to the grand jury, Jacobsen said that he offered it to Connally, but his fellow Texan refused to take it. Much like the $100,000 campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Bebe Rebozo, the cash was reputedly placed by Jacobsen in a vault in a bank-an Austin bank...
...these payments are a very small fraction of what the universities' tax bills would be if all their property were fully taxed--as many local politicians have demanded in recent years. It is doubtful that Harvard and MIT fully pay for all the services they receive from the city--especially in such areas as fire protection...
Still, for an industry that has revenues of $18.3 billion a year (after federal, state and local taxes), such expenditures are probably only a fraction of what they should be. Contrasted with this are all the ads pitched toward the young, implying that not even a weekend in the country can be truly enjoyable without drinking. The industry could no doubt change its pitch-use older models and show people drinking only at parties-without cutting sales or profits...
...infinitely expanding universe is a concept that does not sit well with many scientists, but in their search of the heavens, astronomers have so far found only a fraction of the mass needed to produce enough gravitational force to halt and reverse the outward flight. Now, Astrophysicist Jeremiah P. Ostriker of Princeton University thinks that he may have found what his colleagues have been looking for. At a recent meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, he suggested that enough mass to "close" the universe may be hidden in great halos of matter around the galaxies. His evidence comes...