Word: legmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course it is impossible to have a couple of $200-a-week legmen impersonated by million-dollar movie stars, their images blown up to gigantic proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein...
...Howard Hunt shows little reticence nowadays in talking about those whom he considers responsible for the Watergate raid. "I guess it's obvious now," says Hunt, "that the Watergate thing was planned by a small group of people-Mitchell, Magruder, maybe a few others. We were just legmen in that operation following decisions made by others, and yet we're the only ones who have suffered from...
...continuing conflict between the Nixon Administration and the press, Columnist Jack Anderson and his trio of legmen have employed the boldest and, in Government eyes, the most outrageous guerrilla tactics. Secret memos, classified documents, off-the-record exchanges-all have found their way into Anderson's hands and columns (TIME cover, April 3). Countering with some cloak-and-dagger work of its own, the FBI last week arrested one of Anderson's men while he was loading stolen documents into...
...regular informants among Senate aides, sub-Cabinet officials and Civil Service careerists in every important branch of Government. He has received documents from the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department and, on one occasion, part of a message to TIME from its Boston bureau. With three full-time legmen, Anderson rigorously follows up leads. He then divides the results into seven chapters a week of scandal and assorted disclosures for his column "The Washington Merry-Go-Round...
Anderson and his legmen have a certain disdain for conventional journalistic standards, believing that most large news organizations are too timid and too respectful of those in authority. Les Whitten, 44, the senior of the assistants, points out cheerfully that "the Xerox has done more for freedom of information than any law that could ever be concocted." As long as there are people willing-for whatever motive-to break security, Anderson & Co. are willing to consider the offerings...