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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, I don't know that. But Herbert Kalmbach [the President's personal lawyer at the time], according to his testimony before the Senate committee, kept an even larger sum of money-left over from the 1968 Presidential campaign-in safe-deposit boxes. If you have any knowledge of mathematics, it makes you wonder, but that is Kalmbach's testimony...
Throughout the cease-fire diplomacy of last week, the Arabs kept tightening their oil blockade of the West. Production cutbacks deepened; export embargoes spread. By week's end it was clear that after the shooting stops in the Middle East, the U.S., Europe and Japan will still be facing a war of oil attrition that will put severe strains on their diplomatic and economic cooperation...
Sakharov reported the incident to the police, who sent four men to investigate. But since Sakharov's house is kept under government surveillance anyway, it seems highly unlikely that the intruders could have escaped official notice. While world public opinion probably keeps the Kremlin from persecuting Sakharov more actively, if it had wanted to give him a good fright it would have found the Arab threats extremely convenient...
President Nixon's abrupt schedule changes kept the three TV networks off balance last week. First they had to go through the motions of sweeping aside an estimated $250,000 worth of prime-time programs for a Wednesday night speech on the Watergate tapes case. Then the White House decided on a Thursday night press conference instead. Preoccupation with the Middle East problem put that off until Friday. At no time did TV executives, or anyone else, question the President's right to a national audience of 60 million or more when he wanted...
...more prime-time exposure than any predecessor; in his first 18 months in office he appeared during choice hours as often as Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson combined during comparable periods of their Administrations. Neither the Congress, the courts nor the party out of power has kept pace with the Executive's ability to commandeer free air time in the format of his choice...