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Chapin also had trouble with what may be the classic dilemma for Watergate defendants. Character witnesses, as Bellows points out, are especially important when the issue is whether the defendant is a liar. But Chapin could find only two such witnesses. Most other potential supporters were themselves already involved in the Watergate scandal. Last week John Mitchell ran into a related problem and presented no character witnesses for fear they would be cross-examined about Mitchell's other imminent trial. Future Watergate defendants will probably have the same trouble Chapin and Mitchell...
Stunned Parents. There was a hard edge to Patty's voice as she declared: "Dad, you said that you were concerned with my life, and you also said you were concerned with the life and interests of all oppressed people in this country. But you are a liar in both areas, and I know for sure that your and Mom's interests are never the interests of the people." Attacking white society, she said that she had learned how "vicious the pig really is." She added: "Our comrades are teaching me to attack with even greater viciousness...
...There is no new historical insight, nor is there any surprising or previously unpublished information of any significance. But just to have Truman say of Douglas MacArthur, "there are times when I'm afraid he wasn't right in his head," or call Richard Nixon, "a shifty-eyed, goddam liar," is enjoyable in itself...
...brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares: "The police know they are wasting their time at that court. The streets are loaded with people that any decent judicial system would have in jail...
...according to a Senator from Tennessee, "an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, a natural-born liar, a liar for a living." F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...