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...Canadian radio last June in an editorial entitled "Americans." The response was so enthusiastic from U.S. listeners who were tuned in that Sinclair made a record of the editorial, with the strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background. Another Canadian, a news director named Byron MacGregor, 25, was so stirred by Sinclair's encomium that he too made a recording of it, with America, the Beautiful as background music. Sales of the records zoomed in five weeks to a total of 2.9 million copies, placing "Americans" in a class with the fastest-selling hits...
Gunnar K. Myrdal, the Swedish economist, Erik H. Erikson, professor of human development emeritus, James MacGregor Burns, professor of political science at Williams College, and Rexford G. Tugwell, a former Brain Truster for President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, will also participate in the conference...
...campaign began to gear up, there was bad blood between Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell. When Clark MacGregor took over, the same friction persisted. Ehrlichman wanted a bigger voice in strategy, and his differences with MacGregor grew to the point that the two had to have it out, with Haldeman as mediator. Haldeman noted that Ehrlichman had made his point-and backed MacGregor. It was one of the rare times the two friends came down on different sides of a problem. As time went on, both seemed to feel the Government of the U.S. was synonymous with the presidency. Ehrlichman...
...vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite but as a "wall sitter"-one who carried out policy rather than helped make...
...Clark MacGregor, then chief of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, said: "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the [Washington] Post has maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate, a charge which the Post knows-and a half a dozen investigations have found-to be false...