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Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by TOM MANKIEWICZ...
...kind of normality. "There is a hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional campaign in 1972, the attitude toward Government now is "not so much like 'Bring us together' as it is 'Leave us alone...
...RICHARD M. NIXON by FRANK MANKIEWICZ 263 pages. Quadrangle...
Politically Doomed. John Osborne and Frank Mankiewicz approach the story from a different point of view. Osborne is a veteran independent journalist, and his book consists mainly of reprints from his fine "Nixon Watch" columns in the New Republic. They demonstrate once again how perceptive Osborne was in sensing ahead of the rest of the press that the President was politically doomed and that Nixon's psychological stability was doubtful. Osborne's most memorable material is a discussion of the almost Queeg-like attention to petty detail that characterized Nixon's White House work habits long before...
...Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...