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Veteran White House Reporter Garnett ("Jack") Horner, 63, described it as "my biggest beat, the high point of 45 years in the newspaper world." It was all of that. Two days after the election, the Washington Star-News printed Horner's exclusive interview with Richard Nixon. While Nixon's revealing look into the future was being headlined around the country-with credit to the reporter and his paper-the Star-News followed with a second Horner interview, this one with Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman, which included specifics about Administration fiscal plans. It, too, received wide attention...
...Horner and the Star-News were the envy of the profession.* Still, everyone knows that a presidential interview is granted, not obtained. Why that reporter and that newspaper? Ironically, the "credit" seems to belong to the Washington Post, the Star-News's morning rival and the Administration's nettlesome enemy. A White House aide confirmed that suspicion. "The whole idea [in granting the interviews]," he told TIME, "was to screw the Washington Post. The thinking was, 'How can we hurt the Post the most?' They seem to relish the frontal attacks. The answer...
...Administration ploy was part of a long feud with the Post, exacerbated in recent months by the paper's relentless pursuit of the Watergate and other political-espionage stories. Reverting to "frontal attacks" after the Horner stories appeared, Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson accused the Post of "McCarthyism" in its use of anti-G.O.P. allegations. Colson described Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee as the "self-appointed leader of a tiny fringe of arrogant elitists." Remarked Bradlee: "I just don't think I'm going to answer that stuff from Mr. Colson." His reaction...
...here inaugural speech. Horner said that she was excited by the unique nature of our present relationship with Harvard...
...champagne luncheon held in Hemenway Gymnasium immediately after the inauguration. President Bok praised Horner and emphasized that the future of Radcliffe is ultimately for Radcliffe to decide...