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Even a longtime critic, California Republican Paul N. ("Pete") McCloskey, praised Nixon's "state of physical and emotional health" and added: "He looked to me like he relished the combat he was in." Declared another critic, Massachusetts Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent: "He has a strength that is really amazing; he was cool and clear and precise-and with no notes in front of him." Said Republican Senator Howard Baker: "I've never witnessed a more frank presidential conversation...
Reversing Policies. The problem is to get through the winter, and to do that environmentalists are ready to reverse old policies. Michael McCloskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, favors allocating low-sulfur fuels to the areas with the greatest pollution problems. "But if supplies of such fuels are inadequate to meet essential needs, like heating homes and schools," he says, "by all means we should use high-sulfur fuels...
...McCloskey even sees a silver lining to the crisis. For one thing, if driving is limited by gasoline rationing, cities will be less congested and also less choked by exhaust fumes. Moreover, he says, "the public will be made aware of the importance of conserving energy...
...while away the long hours in the air playing bridge. Now and then Kissinger would stroll back to the press section to talk briefly with the 14 reporters aboard. The well-understood ground rule: no attribution, unless a statement is cleared with the department's spokesman, Robert McCloskey...
...German rebuff, on top of everything else, triggered a viscerally angry response in Washington. State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey complained that America's friends were "trying to separate themselves from us publicly." Henry Kissinger exploded. "I don't care what happens to NATO, I'm so disgusted," the new Secretary of State reportedly said. The State Department later denied that Kissinger had used the word disgusted to describe his feelings about the Atlantic allies. Whether he did or not, disgust was clearly the official sentiment in Washington...