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These flurries of reconciliation have occurred before, and then they have come to nothing under onslaughts of arrogance and indifference by the White House wrecking crew. The difference now is that good and reasonable men like Laird and Harlow and Haig are nurturing this rehabilitation. So there is reason to hope...
Last week one more Nixonian "never" became inoperative. Domestic Affairs Chief Melvin Laird suddenly announced that the President was "seriously considering" a variety of tax measures for some time in the future, including a "refundable" increase in personal and corporate income taxes...
...approval of security improvements for the President's private homes. "Since the time of Socrates, politics has been the art of compromise," House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill observed. "When Haldeman and Ehrlichman were running the White House, the President treated Congress like a stepchild. Mel Laird is over there...
...says of himself: 'I'm a child of Congress.' Now is the time for Laird to come over here and sit down with...
Getting the message, Laird called O'Neill about setting up a meeting. Replied O'Neill: "We can give a little, and you can give a little." If enough is given on both sides the business of the people may yet go forward...