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...main conflict centered on just who had first selected Halperin to be wiretapped. Nixon said he asked Kissinger to tell J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, who on the NSC staff had access to the leaked information. But Nixon contended that he had "no recollection" of specifically approving the wiretapping of Halperin himself. By contrast, in his own affidavit for this suit, filed last January, Kissinger claimed that it was Hoover who had first mentioned Halperin, identifying him and other unspecified persons "as security risks." And it was Nixon who then had "directed surveillance of Morton Halperin and certain...
...election has won. These 40 years are the only proper ones for making presidential comparisons because they encompass the modern presidency-that cataclysmic expansion of federal services and presidential powers that began with Franklin Roosevelt. So simple and quiet was the White House even in Herbert Hoover's time that Hoover, the last of the old era, continued the custom of shaking hands with tourists for an hour every day. He had another distinction: he was the last sitting President to be defeated at the polls...
MacMahon refused to comment on the FDA action. "That's not my business," he said. Hoover, who was at a conference in Florida yesterday, could not be reached for comment...
Another doctor involved in the project, Dr. Robert Hoover of the National Cancer Institute, last week cited the study in testimony before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health which is investigating the estrogen risk...
...Although Hoover could not give results of the unfinished study, MacMahon said yesterday that the report may add to recently published evidence linking estrogens and uterine cancer...