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News-Oriented. Sometimes Miller acts upon sheer impulse. In 1969 he received a routine letter-having nothing to do with purchasing properties-from Louis Weil, president of Federated Publications. After glancing at the names of Federated's seven papers on the letterhead, Miller promptly phoned Weil. "Look," he said, "I see that you're not in any states where we are, and we're not in any states where you are. Why not talk about a possible merger?" Only four months later, Gannett agreed to buy out Federated. Miller shuns the biggest cities, where purchase costs...
Paid for Bugs. Wilson received a bill for $2,500 on the letterhead of Construction Consultants, Inc.; the charge was described as a "consulting fee." The bill was paid, and Wilson billed Sharp for $2,500 in "legal services." In an interview with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer, Wilson said that he had no idea that the fee was for the bugging devices. Wilson did not question the request from Novotny: "I trusted those people. As it turned out, I was a patsy." Technically, Wilson did not break the law when he paid for the bugging. Texas has no law against...
...National Observer. What particularly irked Hoover was the retelling of an anecdote from former Attorney General Francis Biddle's 1962 book In Brief Authority. It seems an FBI agent had gone to tap the telephone of Left-Wing Longshoreman Harry Bridges and dropped an incriminating FBI letterhead during his visit. Biddle and Hoover rushed to the office of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain. Tickled, F.D.R. supposedly slapped Hoover on the back and said, "My God, Edgar, that's the first time you've been caught with your pants down." Retorted Hoover: "There never was a time...
...Also included in the memo are such tidbits as names of Philadelphia area college faculty members which appeared on the letterhead of SANE, a nationwide peace group, and a letter from a woman apologizing to the FBI for having told her neighbors information that the FBI had asked her to keep confidential (she had talked, she said, because she thought the information was "inconsequential and of a trivial nature...
Typically, when President Nixon intervened, Daniel displayed no outrage. Nor did he consult anyone as to the course he should take or, once his decision was made, what he should say in the letter. He wrote it on plain stationery, without the Army letterhead...