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...million a year as of July 1 to $100 million by 1980. In a fit of pique at the proposal, Nixon left word as he set off for the Middle East that he wanted to cut rather than raise PBS funding and, above all, keep it on the short leash of year-to-year financing...
Indeed, he considered it more a clumsy attempt at flattery by the President, who privately bragged to top aides that he had Petersen "on a short leash," than an actual job offer. Later Nixon appoint ed Clarence Kelley as permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover...
...Lebanese, the Israeli attack aroused not only fury but also frustration. The government in neighboring Syria adamantly backs the fedayeen movement but has the muscle to keep the guerrillas within its borders on a tight leash. Lebanon, on the other hand, has never been able to control the thousands of armed commandos who live within Israel's most vulnerable and militarily impotent neighbor. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and other fedayeen officials have their headquarters in Beirut. Moreover, the fedayeen military equipment is probably more modern than that of Lebanon's 16,000 man, U.S.-supplied army. After last week...
...Ervin committee last summer was considered by many to be a virtuoso display of candor and integrity. The transcripts, however, reveal that Petersen was callously manipulated by the President, who even went so far as to boast to Ehrlichman and Ziegler, "I've got Petersen on a short leash...
...Well, let me say?I've got Peterson on a short leash...