Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Street Journal declared that ample evidence existed at last for the President's impeachment, conviction and removal from office and that the nation could now "take this momentous step in a spirit approaching unity." Resignation, it added, would be an "entirely fitting" alternative. The Journal praised its "perceptive colleagues who long ago concluded that it was foolish to doubt that Mr. Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up," but added that "the present unity could never have been reached if in the impatience of our era he had been impeached the moment they perceived his guilt...
...unexpectedly smooth resolution of America's long, arcane agony over Watergate (one BBC commentator noted that Nixon's farewell "was more of an inaugural address than anything else") and astonishment at the resilience of American institutions. Nixon's departure, said Vorwärts, the weekly journal of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, was "a deliverance." Headlined Turin's daily La Stampa: AMERICA HAS WON, NIXON RESIGNS...
Wall Street Journal Reporter: Maybe so, but I know that just the other day the president called up Congressman Charlie Rangel, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, to arrange to have a meeting. He called Rangel himself. Charlie's secretary was sitting at her desk when the phone rang. She picked it up, and when she heard it was the president on the other end, she put her hand over the mouthpiece, like this, and said to a fellow office worker, "You're not going to believe this, but it's the president on the phone...
...Wall Street Journal handles Ford's harsh line toward civil rights legislation with kid gloves. In last Friday's issue Norman Miller, after discussing Ford's views on race relations, pardoned Ford's attitudes as due mainly to "pragmatism." As House minority leader, writes Miller, Ford, by maneuvering his colleagues, "enabled the GOP to accumulate Dixiecrat IOUs that Mr. Ford could call in on other bills...
Hemphill is a former columnist for The Atlanta Journal who, since going freelance a few years ago, has become one of the people who interprets the South for the magazine-reading public. It's a position similar to that of travel/adventure writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the people who would go off to Africa and the East and return with reports of dark and exotic lands. People who write about the South for a national audience seem bound to weigh in with a series of set-pieces. There's the New South, the Changing South...