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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, John Dean came before Judge John Sirica to be sentenced for the single count of conspiracy hi the Watergate cover-up that he pleaded guilty to last October. Accompanied by his attorney, Charles Shaffer, and Shaffer's wife Susan (Maureen Dean was at home in Los Angeles), Dean placed himself at the mercy of the court: "The only thing I would ask for is your compassion and understanding. I realize to say I am sorry is not enough." After denying Shaffer's request to postpone sentencing until the newly released Watergate tapes could shed more light...
...desk every morning at 8 and often was still there after midnight, sometimes conferring with his staff as late as 3 a.m. When he got a chance, he relaxed by playing paddle ball on the congressional courts or by listening to opera records-Tosca is his favorite -hi the apartment he maintains near the Capitol. Weekends he spent in Newark with his wife Marianna, who had been a high school girl friend. (The Rodinos have two children-Peter, a law student at Seton Hall University, and Margaret, the wife of a Newark judge.) The pace was too fast. In February...
...best stories is Edward and God, about a young teacher who pretends to great holiness in order to seduce a churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...
...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
...their aim is not history or biography, but careful journalism with final judgments held to a minimum. Marvin, 44, and Bernard, 52, have followed Kissinger around the world for CBS and have had access to a wide range of sources, including Kissinger himself, though the Secretary had no part hi the book's writing or editing. Their account of Kissinger ranges across his full career in the Nixon Administration, but the freshest and most controversial of their chapters deals with Kissinger's handling of the 1973 war in the Middle East. It is a vivid picture...