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...turned up mysteriously years later in his home town of Marion, Ohio. Though 25 Presidents or their families handed over their documents to the Library of Congress free of charge, Congress paid at least $190,000 for the documents of some of the early Presidents. Chief Executives from Herbert Hoover on arranged to have their papers collected and controlled by elaborate libraries set up in their own names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Who Owns the Tapes? | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Oregon, fans of the World Football League's Portland Storm press together in a 27,500-seat stadium built for baseball before the Hoover Depression. On Randall's Island in the middle of New York's East River, the quarterback of the city's Stars tosses passes into darkness as his team plays under lights first used 35 years ago at Ebbets Field, where apartment houses now stand. ("This is the only stadium, and the only league," says Star Defensive End Gerry Philbin, "where they decide on the coin flip whether they'll take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gaining a Cleathold | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

Nothing in the evidence indicates that Nixon knew in advance of the Fielding burglary, but he clearly created the mood of vengeance toward Ellsberg that led to it. He ordered Hoover to supply information on Ellsberg to Egil Krogh, the "plumber" who served 4½ months in prison after pleading guilty to violating Dr. Fielding's civil rights. Charles Colson, who has been sentenced to one-to-three years in prison for smearing Ellsberg, reported in a newly revealed affidavit: "The President from time to time expressed his dissatisfaction with the aggressiveness of the [Ellsberg] investigations ..." Moreover, in what apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: More Evidence: Huge Case for Judgment | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...coverage on knowledgeable National Security Council personnel and certain newsmen who had particular news interest in the SALT talks." Since Haig was Kissinger's subordinate, he obviously could not have ordered the taps without Kissinger's approval. In a memo by the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover about a 1969 conversation with Kissinger, Hoover reported that Kissinger said he would "destroy whoever is leaking if we can find him, no matter where he is." TIME has learned Hoover also told Kissinger that the taps could not be placed until Attorney General John Mitchell approved them. Kissinger then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Week the Cloud Burst | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Still, the evidence is less clear than it seems. President Nixon has already asserted that he personally ordered the taps. In that event, Kissinger was doing the President's bidding. Hoover also had the habit of rather indiscriminately putting names down as initiators of wiretaps. Kissinger may have been a victim of this practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Week the Cloud Burst | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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