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Some took comfort from the fact that in the ominous murk of Watergate the legal process was at last in operation. Actually, there is a dual process at work in the U.S. now. The nation's institutions have submitted their cases of principle and conflicts of powers to the courts. There, Richard Nixon's argument will be decided as an issue in the collision of separate branches. Simultaneously, Nixon is being tried in the minds of his fellow Americans. The verdict there may be less clear, but it could be far more damaging...
...political story that summer was the Democratic nomination of George McGovern for President, and then came the controversy over his running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton. Watergate submerged into the murk like another Loch Ness monster. TIME letter writers, however, consistently took a more critical view of President Nixon than did the voters as a whole. As of Election Day, TIME's mail ran roughly 4 to 1 against Nixon, compared with his 60.7% majority of the popular vote...
...this point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...
There are frequent gleams of rough heroism in the murk of violence. Though Eraser's outlaws are notably grubbier, they are still recognizably the same men immortalized in border ballads like Johnnie Armstrang, Kinmont Willie and The Douglas Tragedy. If the clangor of their combat has been long silenced, it nevertheless has some unexpected contemporary resonances. Living at the heart of Liddesdale, the most intractable part of the whole border, and numbered among the toughest of all the reivers was a family named Nixon. · Charles Elliott
...stick to the main line; at same time an eastward freight sweeps by on the descending grade. After Victorville it is a climb of 1,106 ft. in 19 miles to the summit of Cajon Pass, eerily shrouded in fog. We crawl along, watching for signals looming out of murk, then creep down the steep slope, air brakes hissing, to San Bernardino. Suddenly all is neon lights, freeways, gas stations and palm trees...