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...having an enema.' " Authority implemented with scatology was natural to Johnson's agrarian traditions of rough paternalism. He got things done through personal contacts; he knew everybody and their skeletons. As the young secretary to Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, he persuaded Western Union boys to leak him telegrams announcing federal projects. Johnson then released the news first, under his own name. As a New Deal Congressman, he was a favorite of F.D.R.'s. As Senator Johnson, leader of the majority, he ruled at the center of a web woven of short hairs. His knowledge of what people...
That, too, was dug out by the Post last week. Some six months after the initial story ran, the White House asked that more than 20 top officials sign affidavits that they had not been the source of the leak. Hodding Carter, then the State Department's spokesman, refused. Says he: "I don't believe in signing a piece of paper that says I am innocent. That's not how things are supposed to work in this country." All the others signed, including Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher; CIA Director Stansfield Turner; National Security Adviser Zbigniew...
...ODESSA was the code name Liddy gave to his secret leak-plugging projects at the White House...
...signs. Then, just as the television and press get their cameras going, and with McGovern standing there, helpless, every dirty hippie there is gonna whip it out and take a leak, right there in front of everybody. They'll never be able to get the stink out of the carpet so he'll have to move, and no way they'll be able to keep quiet...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds, which repaired the leak on Tuesday, said the fumes posed no serious threat. The problem developed when water, anti-freeze, and an anti-bacterial agent leaked into the cooling system early last week...