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...constant source of purple surprise. But unlike Nixon, he did not mechanically spew out obscenities; he used them pointedly to cap his stories. L.B.J. could make people chuckle with his inventive cussing and barnyard phrases, and those who were not afraid of him rather admired what Newsman Peter Lisagor once called his "rich, almost lyrical, Pedernales patois...
Murine and Candy Bars. Newsmen found the hardest job was just reading the document. That task, reports Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Daily News, "was a full day's operation-with lots of Murine and candy bars for energy." The New York Times assigned nine Washington reporters and four editors to the transcripts. The Wednesday morning edition carried nine bylined stories and ten pages of transcripts, the first of a four-part serialization of the whole thing. The Washington Post put 18 reporters on the transcripts; most of them had been working on Watergate for months...
...substantive terms, the Administration can cite precious few examples of what it sees as TV's "distorted reporting." Appearing on the Dick Cavett Show last week, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Peter Lisagor said: "We've been trying since that Friday night press conference to get a bill of particulars, specify what was distorted, what was hysterical, what was vicious. And about the only thing that we can come up with so far is that Walter Cronkite quoted Hanoi radio one time as saying the President was out of his senses...
They were having a briefing in the White House and Ron Ziegler, the czar of non-information, was giving out no answers to a whole range of bitchy questions about the budget, peace and bugging, when Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News glanced out the White House window and blinked. There was Nixon striding by, alone, eyes on the middle distance, the picture of a bothered President...
...Chicago Daily News's Washington correspondent Peter Lisagor treated both parties with commendable fairness while panning a campaign he called "a dismal disappointment, the least ennobling in our experience." Mike Royko, Lisagor's Chicago-based colleague, deftly pointed out the irony of Mayor Richard Daley's quick return to party eminence after being unseated by McGovernites at the Democratic Convention: "He's getting his revenge, all right...He just sits back and lets the reformers and new-politics crowd come to him, asking: 'Steal one for us, Dick...