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This prudence may come from his back ground in print journalism, as publisher of the Long Island newspaper Newsday (1967-70) and author of the 1971 book Listening to America. The most engaging and refreshing thing about him is that, at 39, he regards himself as he does the nation - as open and unfinished - and is not yet ready to wrap himself in the cellophane of self-esteem and present himself as a finished media product...
...often deplorable. Since New York State started emptying its mental institutions of thousands of inmates six years ago, many of them "have been jammed into tiny rooms, basements, and garages and fed a semi-starvation diet of rice and chicken necks," an investigation by the Long Island newspaper Newsday revealed last week. The state has made little or no provision to ensure the former mental patients "suitable housing or supervised after-care," charged Newsday. "As a result, they are taken from the steps of mental institutions by operators who jam them into what can only be described as private jails...
When Nixon's crony and bagman Charles "Bebe" Rebozo was under investigation by Newsday's great (in girth and ability) Bob Greene, John Dean, the president's counsel, decided to win one for Bebe. He sicced White House enforcer Jack Caulfield (so Caulfield has secretly testified) on the unsuspecting Greene. Caulfield suggested to the IRS that they audit Greene. Sure enough, at IRS urging, Greene was audited by New York state. He owed not a penny: the audit cost him only his time, accountants' charges and his peace of mind...
Rebozo's career was probed in a Fall 1971 Newsday expose. Among his less noble accomplishments are selling stolen stocks, wringing special favors from the U.S. Small Business Administration, delivering building contracts to mobsters, and reportedly capitalizing on government connections to benefit from real estate deals...
...McGovernite, ardently anti-Nixon." Gibbons' tax return for 1971 was later audited, and he said he had to pay a small additional tax on items involving travel expenses. Dean also testified that Caulfield succeeded in getting IRS to audit the 1970 tax return of Robert Greene, a Newsday editor who investigated the business dealings of Nixon friends Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo and George Smathers. Greene said that the audit cost him $100 in accounting fees, but the review showed "I did not owe them a nickel...