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After the Bay of Pigs, Ted Sorensen, John Kennedy's counsel, gave a backgrounder to newsmen pointing out that the operation had begun under Eisenhower and was carried out by holdovers. It was one of the few times that Sorensen irritated Kennedy. "Don't do that," he rasped. "We made this mistake." Before the successful conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Kennedy was certain that his failure to heed the early warnings from Republicans such as Homer Capehart and Kenneth Keating about the missiles would bring Democratic defeats in the fall. Some aides wanted to deprecate...
...piloted a similar shuttle to a disengagement agreement between their forces and Israel's last January-and they were certain that he could do it with Syria and Israel. In Alexandria, where the weather was cooler than in Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat received Kissinger and told newsmen that "my friend, Dr. Henry" would get his agreement. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy effusively estimated the chances at 80%. But others were not so sure, least of all the Kissinger party. "The two positions are still far apart," said one high U.S. official. In Damascus, students marched...
Murine and Candy Bars. Newsmen found the hardest job was just reading the document. That task, reports Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Daily News, "was a full day's operation-with lots of Murine and candy bars for energy." The New York Times assigned nine Washington reporters and four editors to the transcripts. The Wednesday morning edition carried nine bylined stories and ten pages of transcripts, the first of a four-part serialization of the whole thing. The Washington Post put 18 reporters on the transcripts; most of them had been working on Watergate for months...
...Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate problem, don't you think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt's financial situation damn soon?" Particularly helpful were readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...
...talks easily on such matters as the concentration of private wealth in the hands of relatively few Oklahomans and the amount of state tax paid by oil companies in 1973. While doing legwork in the state capital, Troy is a one-man information clearinghouse. He gets tips from other newsmen whose papers are cool to exposes. Legislators and their aides regularly quiz him on state issues...