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...that Nixon would have won no matter whom the Democrats had nominated. Last May, well before the Democratic Convention, the President was riding a 61% vote of confidence in a Gallup poll ?and the figure virtually matched his Election Day mandate. No incumbent President since Hoover, guillotined by the Depression, has ever been defeated. Moreover, Yankelovich believes that the critical moment of the 1972 campaign occurred when the Russians decided to go ahead with the Moscow summit conference even after the President had announced the mining of Haiphong harbor and escalated the bombing. Many Americans then concluded that...
While it has been normal for the White House to ask for FBI files on individuals-a request former FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover routinely granted Lyndon Johnson, for instance-there is no public record of the bureau's having been asked to initiate political studies for a President.* Ehrlichman later told TIME that the request for information had gone from his office to the Justice Department and should not have gone to the FBI. If it did, he said, it would violate Administration policy and "would not be condoned by the White House...
...procedure astounded veteran FBI officials. Said one of them: "The White House wouldn't have dared to send over an order like that when Hoover was in charge. He would have kicked it right back to them and refused to do what they wanted...
...Cubans to Washington first class, showed them a picture of Ellsberg, and told them: "Our mission is to hit him-to call him a traitor and punch him in the nose. Hit him and run." The site chosen was outside the Capitol rotunda, where the body of J. Edgar Hoover was lying in state. The idea was to denounce Ellsberg, who was holding a rally on the steps, and start a riot. As it turned out, the "riot" ended after a brief flurry of punches, most of which landed on Ellsberg's bodyguard...
...business partner, Doris, 69; by self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning; in South Pasadena, Calif. Dreyfuss was a young stage designer at the start of the Depression when he turned his talents to industry. During the next four decades he fashioned such everyday items as Big Ben alarm clocks, Hoover vacuum cleaners, Royal typewriters and the Trimline telephone...