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...those who had training couldn't use it to find a job because they lacked facility in English. Eighty-five percent of the adult population in Chinatown speaks little of no English. The jobs in local restaurants and businesses that absorbed past immigrants have become saturated, and the garment industry where many Chinese women found unskilled jobs is declining...
...rootless outsider who bitterly resented social slights offered him by men like Eisenhower and Rockefeller. Most important, White's book includes an absorbing day-by-day account, based on personal interviews, of what the President and the men around him-especially General Alexander Haig and Lawyers Leonard Garment and James St. Clair-were doing during the final weeks of the crisis. For some days, White says, Haig was in fact the country's "Acting President" as he maneuvered to help bring about a resignation, while the moody Nixon veered between defensive anger and despair...
...learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt as he seemed. White, quoting another Nixon lawyer, Leonard Garment, offers the most plausible clue. "There was this wishful non-knowingness," Garment recalled. "We didn't want to get together and put all the pieces together. We were afraid of what we might find...
...Murray's question, "Is it reasonable that a candidate for immortality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being...should...be so degraded as to be allowed no other ideas than those which are suggested by the mechanics of a pudding, or the sewing of the seams of a garment?" Her answer is an emphatic...
...course) as its diurnal sister-if somewhat fewer of them-and all written in similarly breathless prose (Jacqueline Onassis is "mystique mingled with mystery-maybe even sorcery"). About the only thing that W does not pick up from WWD is the daily's daily hamper of garment-industry news, though W does cover the nontrade side of fashion like a Big Chemise. W's fast close (stories written as late as Wednesday are in readers' hands on Friday) allows it to show spring and fall fashions up to three months ahead of Vogue and Harper...