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Redford's interest in Watergate began when he heard a group of reporters discussing the bungled breakin. Ironically they were covering the actor's promo tour for The Candidate. They all thought Nixon had probably known about it and that no one?least of all their fellow newsmen???would ever pursue the matter far enough to confirm or deny their suspicions...
...Kissinger incident. Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger?a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"?might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder." Well, hardly. But the press?especially Washington newsmen???had indeed given the unfortunate impression of ganging up on the only hero in town...
...operates with a pack mentality. At the same time, the intense competitiveness of the newsmen???once they are fully aroused on a major story?occasionally makes them reach too far. New Republic's John Osborne, perhaps Washington's most judicious Nixon watcher, acknowledges that the press performed a "necessary and proper" function in getting at the basic facts of Watergate. "But," he adds, "I have to say at the same time that they're like dogs who have scented blood and are running the fox right down to the death...
Meany responded to the slights by hustling 135 labor lawyers from across the nation into Washington to consider ways to fight the freeze in court. They concluded that there was almost no way to do so, but the meeting drew crowds of newsmen???and headlines in the little cold war. Afterward, a staffer in the office of Charles Colson, a presidential counsel, put in a telephone call to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Arch Booth. He suggested that the chamber, in the interests of more efficient contract negotiations, call for the retirement of labor leaders over...
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