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...President should be aware of any taping "as a matter of self-protection." Republican House Leader Gerald Ford said that he saw "nothing wrong with the practice." Quipped former Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "I'm glad I always nodded when talking to the President." A Nixon loyalist, former Presidential Aide William Safire, writing in the New York Times, said the President was setting "a terrible example" of eavesdropping by his "Monster With Total Recall...
...militant Loyalists. Convinced that the new assembly represents a British sellout of Protestant Ulster-men, the Loyalists are determined to make it fail. Speaking from the back of a Union Jack-draped truck in Portadown last week, King Billy Craig declared: "For four years now, we have had defeat after defeat, humiliation after humiliation. The only thing that is really left to lose is Ulster itself." Faulkner, in turn, has attacked the Loyalist leaders for consorting with the extremist paramilitary Ulster Defense Association. Craig and Paisley, he says, have "bloodstains on their joint program...
...sharply with the man he replaces. Laird, a 16-year congressional veteran from Wisconsin who argued unsuccessfully against some of Nixon's Viet Nam policies while he was Secretary of Defense, is a far more independent-minded adviser than John Ehrlichman, the congressional critic and highly protective Nixon loyalist whom he replaces...
...Checkers speech I wanted to throw up. But I felt guilty, that perhaps my dislike of him was superficial. Then I thought he had really grown in the office, and I supported a lot of what he was doing. Now I'm stunned. Even among my staunch Nixon-loyalist friends you don't hear any support for the President: they feel even more betrayed than me. I no longer care whether Nixon knew of this or that particular action. If he didn't know, he should have. He's politically dead...
...Harry Robbins) HALDEMAN, 46, White House chief of staff. A crew-cut Southern Californian who neither smokes nor drinks, "Bob" Haldeman was once a vice president of the J. Walter Thompson ad agency in Los Angeles. He is a longtime Nixon loyalist, who advised the former Vice President against running for Governor of California, then bravely managed his disastrous 1962 campaign. One of the most formidable members of Nixon's palace guard, Haldeman wields enormous power, passing along presidential orders and ideas to the rest of the staff. His humorlessness and determination to protect the President from outsiders have...