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...leadership is that it can all too easily become a talisman, a form of magic. Instead effacing the problems and working at them, people tend to sit back and hope for leadership. "Everybody is looking for somebody else to do something for them, to take the responsibility," says Nelson Rockefeller. According to Chicago Psychoanalyst Jules Masserman, "We never get over being children. We're always looking for a parent figure." In a democracy, leadership always requires collaboration between
Rita E. Hauser, 39. "Some day there will be a woman on the Supreme Court," predicts Hauser, who was among those mentioned for a seat when Justice John Marshall Harlan retired in 1971. A moderate Republican who has campaigned for both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned...
...under opposing fire from the White House for its haste. The President's special counsel, Dean Burch, assailed the committee as "a partisan lynch mob" acting under orders from the Democratic "hierarchy" of the Congress. Chairman Rodino came under intense personal criticism after Los Angeles Times Reporter Jack Nelson indirectly quoted him as saying in an informal chat with three newsmen (Rodino thought it was off the record) that all 21 of the committee's Democrats were prepared to vote for impeachment. White House Communications Director Ken Clawson claimed that this confirmed that Nixon was the "subject...
...kept them on the story even as it grew. Bernstein, then 28, had been covering Virginia politics. Woodward, 29, an enrolled Republican who had been with the paper only nine months, was reporting on unsanitary restaurants and petty police graft. More experienced investigators like Sandy Smith of TIME, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, and James Polk of the Washington Star-News were later to enter the arena...
Conventional wisdom now judges politicians by how fractionally they veer from the center: Barry Goldwater and George McGovern stand condemned for their inability or unwillingness to come in from the extreme; Nelson Rockefeller is studied with fascination as he carefully calibrates his evolution away from seeming too liberal for his party. Senator Charles Percy, advised to adopt a similar course, recently objected that "a swing to the right would devastate my credibility." Such maneuvering, such manufacturing of new credentials by politicians in dogged pursuit of the shifting middle, adds to the current cynicism about office seekers. It also adds...