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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious irony of capitalism," he writes, "that among the only outlets rich enough and powerful enough to stand up to an overblown, occasionally reckless, otherwise unchallenged central government were journalistic institutions that had very, very secure financial bases." Hence the rage that so many politicians have felt when major news outlets threaten the status...
...Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral corner, and saw every major decision upheld by the appeals courts...
...both executive and congressional, must be clear and rational. Until the CIA came under attack, the President was able to evade responsibility for covert actions even though he had initiated them. Currently the President is required by law to approve all covert actions. That makes him the only major chief of state who is not insulated from potential embarrassments caused by his intelligence arma situation that the services of other nations regard with horror. Nevertheless, it is probably the only workable system in the U.S. today...
...rest of the country on the matter of reviving the CIA's capability. "The public mood is very supportive," says a top CIA official. "The question is how to mobilize that support." In the world as it is and not as it is sometimes fondly imagined, a major nation cannot function without a strong intelligence agency, and that is what is conspicuously missing in contemporary America. With the balance of power no longer as securely in America's favor as it once was, there may be little time left to get back into the intelligence business...
...when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach-in in 1965 to the seemingly endless chain of disasters from Chicago onward before the movement slid away from...