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...illegal pro-football betting, they are known as "readers" - informers who funnel inside information on a team's physical and mental condition to bookies and oddsmakers (TIME, Jan. 14). Most bookies have to settle for readers who pick up their dope secondhand from players, coaches, owners or even locker-room attendants. Now two big-time operators in New York City stand accused of using the best kind of reader available: the official orthopedic surgeon of the New York Giants...
What you failed to mention was that she still has some ground to cover until she can be considered on a par with other heads of state. She has yet to be accused of wiretapping, income tax evasion, mishandling of federal funds in connection with personal property, locker-room language, payoffs...
Magruder's evocation of the prevailing mentality in the White House is, in its way, nearly as revealing as that of the Nixon transcripts. In the best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term...
...Reading "Why Those Tapes Were Made" [April 22] gave me a warm feeling. It is comforting to know that the President like everyone else harbors a bitter and savage hatred for people who have angered or crossed him and that he is not above using locker-room language. Why should anyone find such human traits offensive? Had Harry Truman's presidential conversations been recorded, an asbestos tape recorder probably would have been required...
...fact Nixon is innocent of all wrongdoing in Watergate, he must prove his case by making public all relevant tapes. But for the public to hear such "locker-room language" by a President would degrade the presidency, and that is unthinkable for Nixon...