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...meetings and guest list are usually not advertised, the better to promote frank exchanges. But Goldwin has more practical objectives than simply fostering sprightly or even inspiring talk. He sifts each discussion, hoping to find grist for policy proposals. The morning after the December dinner, he sent some of the guests' observations on crime to the Domestic Council. Two weeks later Ford agreed to use several of the ideas in a forthcoming message to Congress. "A lot of those ideas were generated by Goldwin's planning," says James Cavanaugh, deputy director of the Domestic Council's staff...
...that we can't keep them secret is reason enough to desist." U.C.L.A. Soviet Specialist Roman Kolkowicz argues: "The track record is deplorable. By and large, these operations have been a series of disasters." Adds Eugene Skolnikoff, director of M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies: "The resulting scandals provide grist for attacks on the U.S., retroactively validate charges?true or false?that the U.S. makes a habit of overthrowing governments, and even exacerbate domestic distrust of public officials...
...decade that has brought us such outspoken dramas as The Toilet, The Killing of Sister George, A Song at Twilight, Fortune and Men's Eyes, Staircase, The Boys in the Band, and, just this spring, Find Your Way Home, homosexuality is no longer shocking and virtually anything is grist for stage treatment...
...represents a return to his earliest professional concerns. After graduation from New York University and the Columbia School of Journalism, Barrett went to the New York Herald Tribune as a political reporter in 1958. He wrote a weekly column on New York's city hall (accumulating grist for his 1965 novel, The Mayor of New York), then moved to Washington to cover the Pentagon and national politics. When the Trib, with Barrett on the story, was among the few papers to expose the Billie Sol Estes scandal, President Kennedy angrily canceled his subscription. He felt that the Herald Tribune...
Nixon and his counsel, James D. St. Clair, say the 1258 pages of edited Watergate tape transcripts the White House turned over to the Committee in lieu of the 42 subpoenaed tapes will "provide grist for many sensational stories" but make it "totally and abundantly clear" that the president did not "act improperly in the Watergate matter...